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Former Lok Sabha speaker Rabi Ray has said that the euphoria over the recent talks between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Chinese counterpart is flawed on many counts.

The Tibetan Youth Congress has raised the banner of revolt against the Dalai Lama. The provocation being what the TYC sees as the exiled leader’s insufficient criticism of the recent Sino-Indian agreement on Tibet.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday inaugurated a four-day Buddhist festival in Leh town. The Nobel laureate had arrived in Buddhist-majority Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on June 13.

Vinoba during his Bhoodan movement

Dharamsala, July 4 - A Yatra (lit: Journey) called ‘Sarvodaya Sadhbhavna Yatra’ will begin on July 7, a day after His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations. The Yatra will commence from the Tsuklakhang courtyard and end at Prasthan Ashram in Pathankot, a north Indian town in Punjab State.

A Tibetan medicine weekend will be held in the Ard Café, 15 Cross St from Friday July 4 to Sunday 6, with a documentary screening and consultations with a Tibetan qualified practitioner of Tibetan medicine.

Following is the text of the response to a question taken at the July 2 regular State Department briefing on the human rights situation in China; the answer was posted later in the day

Alcatel, the world leader in broadband access solutions, has partnered with China Netcom to successfully introduce digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband solutions in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan autonomous region in China.

Thousands of activists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have gathered in the southern tip of the country to discuss issues ranging from Ayodhya to Tibet as well as next year's general elections.

When he turned 19 six days ago, they organised a little celebration in Dharamsala for Ogyen Thinley Dorjee. But this wasn’t the way he wanted it. Three birthdays had come and gone and he, the 17th Gyalwapa Karmapa who had the backing of the Dalai Lama