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The San Mateo County Medical Association in California has awarded its Distinguished Service Award for this year to Dr. Nancy Harris for her contribution towards improving the health of the Tibetans in Tibet.

Although Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha, in an interview to BBC called the joint communiqué between India and China a “win-win” situation for both, the pact does not represent any dramatic move forward, say China experts.

26 year old Tibetan nun Ngawang Sangdrol said today that she hoped British Prime Minister Tony Blair would support the non-violent freedom struggle of the Tibetan people when he visits China next month.

The Dalai Lama will attend a "major peace event"

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is to spend six days in Scotland next year. He will travel north after spending a day in London on 27 May and will spend four days on a programme of Buddhist teachings in Glasgow.

The United Nations General Assembly officially proclaimed 26 June as the UN International Day in support of Victims of Torture in 1997. Every year, the day is commemorated in support of victims of torture and to eliminate torture throughout the world.

Maintaining that it had made no concessions, India today said its recognition of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) as part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was consistent with its stand since 1954.

India’s recognition of the Tibet Autonomous Region as a part of the territory of China has security agencies worried about potential unrest in pockets of India where a large number of Tibetans reside.

India's decision to recognise Tibet as part of China has evoked strong reactions from timesofindia.com readers. While some termed it as "simply horrifying," one reader called it "total stupidity".

Samdhong Rimpoche, a close aide of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, has expressed the hope that the historic visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to China would pave the way for a meaningful dialogue between the Dalai Lama