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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.

Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, the elected head of the Tibetan people, has congratulated Tshering Tobgay, chief of the victorious People's Democratic Party in the recently held parliamentary elections in Bhutan. Tobgay, 47, who led his party to a landslide victory

The speaker of the Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile Penpa Tsering met with Speaker Maya Graf of the Swiss Parliament in Zurich on Monday. Speaker Tsering, who is on an official visit to Switzerland, met Speaker Graf “informally” over lunch

Students for a Free Tibet, the global grass roots network of students and activists working for Tibet’s independence, is all set to see a change in its top leadership, the group has announced. Tenzin Dolkar, a long time activist and Deputy Director of the group, will be taking over as Interim Executive Director from Tenzin Dorjee

The list of people critically injured in Chinese firing on an unarmed crowd of Tibetans gathered to offer prayers for the Dalai Lama on July 6 in Tawu region of eastern Tibet continues to grow. Tsewang Choephel is the latest to have been identified among those injured, taking the toll of those critically injured to ten.

In another major incidence of official land grabbing, large areas of farming land and grassland used by Tibetans in the Muge region of Sungchu in eastern Tibet have been confiscated by local Chinese authorities. Local Chinese authorities have appropriated all farmlands in Achu nomadic camp

The United States has said that it raised concerns over the human rights situation in Tibet and Uighur areas during the two-day US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Washington DC from July 10-11. In a joint press statement following the meeting