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In a move that spoke significantly of China’s rule or lack thereof, over Tibet, local Tibetans were recently barred from attending an official celebration commemorating the “60th founding anniversary of the Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” held by the provincial government of China’s Gansu province.

Around a hundred Tibetans and supporters gathered on Sunday evening at McLeod Ganj square in the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala for a candle light vigil in solidarity with Kunchok Sonam, the latest Tibetan self-immolator. Kunchok Sonam, an 18-year-old monk of the Thangkor Sogtsang Monastery in Zoege region

The wave of self-immolations inside Tibet continues to rage on with reports of yet another fiery protest in the Zoege region of eastern Tibet earlier today. Kunchok Sonam, an 18-year-old monk of the Zoege Monastery, set himself on fire at around 8:40 am (local time) protesting China’s occupation of Tibet. He passed away at the site of his protest.

In another instance of heavy-handed ruling following the criminalisation of the self-immolation protests in Tibet, a Tibetan monk has been sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of ‘intentional homicide.’ Tsultrim Kalsang, 25, a Tibetan monk from the restive Nyatso Zilkar Monastery

Hundreds of Tibetan women representatives from all over India and Nepal are currently gathered in Dhondenling settlement, Kollegal in south India to take part in the 11th Working Committee Meeting of the Tibetan Women’s Association, which began Thursday.

China has vowed to implement more stringent measures to crackdown on what it calls “illegal publications” and “reactionary promotional products” including text messages, audio visual products, TV and radio programmes and books in Tibet. China deems publications on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the exile Tibetan administration

The Indian government has given the go ahead for raising a Mountain Strike Corps, the much-awaited expansion which will equip the Indian armed forces to ‘move from the current stage of dissuasion to deterrence against China.’ The Cabinet Committee on Security headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the proposal

Even as communication channels in Tawu, the site of Chinese police firings on unarmed Tibetans earlier this month in eastern Tibet remain erratic, more details about the tragic incident and those injured have reached exile.

A Tibetan writer born to a nomadic family inside Tibet has blasted China’s mass resettlement policy of Tibetans and listed eight “losses” nomads (Tib: drogpas) have suffered post resettlement. Written in Tibetan under the pseudonym Bongtak Rilu

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay visited the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, target of the recent terror attacks and met with the two monks injured in the bomb blasts. He visited all the sites of the serial bomb blasts in Bodh Gaya and offered prayers at the Mahabodhi Temple for peace and calm.