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Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay concluded his tour of the Tibetan settlements in south India with a meeting with the chief minister of Karnataka state Jagadish Shettar today.

Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay concluded his tour of the Tibetan settlements in south India with a meeting with the chief minister of Karnataka state Jagadish Shettar today.

China has rejected India’s request to re-open its consulate in Tibet’s ancient capital city of Lhasa. According to Indian media reports, Beijing instead suggested Chengdu as an alternative location.

Five years after Runggye Adak, a Tibetan nomad, was arrested for giving an impassioned speech calling for the Dalai Lama’s return in front of thousands of Tibetans, serious concerns have been raised over his treatment by Chinese prison

Hundreds of Tibetan including the Tibetan Chief Justice Commissioners, Kalons, and members of Parliament attended a prayer service yesterday held in honour of Ngawang Norphel,who passed away in a Chinese hospital on July 30

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist, said that the human rights situation in China is deteriorating and warned Beijing of continued protests by Chinese people against rights violations.

The deadline for voluntary applicants to apply for the second Special Meeting has been extended to August 15. The earlier deadline set was July 31. Announcing the decision, the Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile said

China successfully test fired three new surface-to-air missiles on the Tibetan plateau sometime last month, prompting further questions on its assertions of a “peaceful rise.”

Some of exile Tibetan community’s most celebrated writers today gave a day-long workshop on creative writing in English to the senior students of the Upper Tibetan Children’s Village School, Dharamshala.

China’s Defence Minister General Liang Guanglie has expressed his desire to visit India to bolster defence ties after an Indian army delegation reportedly made a rare visit to Tibet last month.