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Contemporary Tibetan art scene took a leap forward last week as a major new exhibition dedicated solely to contemporary Tibetan art kicked off at a museum in New York.

Police in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, exile home to thousands of Tibetans including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration, have been alerted of possible terror strikes on Buddhist population and monastries. India’s central counter terrorism unit, the National Investigation Agency, has alerted Himachal police

A long-running border dispute between local Tibetans and Chinese in eastern Tibet turned ugly when around a hundred hired Chinese goons attacked a Tibetan village security post and wounded 17 Tibetans, including three who are in critical condition.

In yet another case of harsh sentencing of Tibetans in connection with the ongoing wave of self-immolation protests inside Tibet, a Chinese court in eastern Tibet has sentenced three Tibetans for up to ten years in prison for their crimes of trying to rescue a Tibetan self-immolator from falling into the hands of Chinese authorities.

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