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Local Tibetan monasteries and groups have joined ongoing relief efforts in the flood-ravaged state of Uttrakhand in north India. Tibetan groups and monastic institutions near the state capital of Dehradun have set up a camp to aid relief works at the Dehradun Jolly Grant Airport,

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today arrived back to his exile home town of Dharamshala from an extended visit to New Zealand and Australia. Hundreds of Tibetans, Indians, and tourists lined up along the streets in McLeod Ganj

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his deep condolences to families who have been effected by the devastating rain and floods in the northern Indian state of Uttrakhand and offered monetary contributions to the ongoing relief efforts.

The exile Tibetan administration has expressed its deep sadness over the devastation caused by torrential rain and floods in the northern Indian state of Uttrakhand in which nearly 800 people have lost their lives. The CTA in a statement on Saturday also announced a donation of Rs 3 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the elected head of the Tibetan people, today addressed a workshop for teachers from five different Tibetan schools at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah. The two-day workshop is being organised by the Department of Education, in collaboration with National Geographic Explorer (NGX) Programme

Coinciding with World Refugee Day, Tibet campaigners in Germany on Thursday called on Nepal to respect the fundamental rights of Tibetan refugees living in the Himalayan country. A 5000 strong petition urging Kathmandu to “respect the right to freedom of expression of Tibetans in Nepal, stop deportation of escaping Tibetans

The exile Tibetan administration on Friday dismissed allegations made by a delegation of communist party leaders from the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region during its recent visit to the United States of America. Members of China’s rubberstamp National People’s Congress from TAR, led by Padma Choling

Tibet campaigners carried out a demonstration outside the InterContinental Hotels Group’s “Future of Local” event in their Times Square hotel in New York on Thursday, demanding the company to ditch its plans of opening a luxury hotel in Lhasa, Tibet’s ancient capital. Calling Tibet “one of the most repressed regions of the world," demonstrators contended

Award winning Tibetan writer and poet Tsering Woeser has once again been placed under house arrest in Beijing by Chinese authorities ahead of a rare state-sponsored trip to Tibet by foreign journalists. Writing on her blog, Woeser said the latest move is intended to prevent her from speaking the truth about Tibet

One of China’s hallmark campaigns in Tibet, aimed at “benefitting the masses,” is in fact leading “an intrusive surveillance of people, carrying out widespread political re-education, and establishing partisan security units,” a rights group has found out. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said