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Days after a magnitude-6.0 quake struck northern Italy followed by a magnitude-5.1 aftershock, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama visited the country on a pre-planned tour and offered his condolences to the quake victims.

Recent reports by China’s state controlled media on Tibetan monks and nuns “initiating a signature campaign to express love for the country” have been called an eyewash, receiving flak from Tibetans in exile.

A re-creation of the ‘Tibetan Proclamation of Independence’ issued by His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama in 1913 was publicly released yesterday evening at a ceremony held in the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala.

61 years to the day when the 17-Point Agreement was forced upon Tibet, Tibetans in the exile seat of Dharamshala carried out activities repudiating the so called agreement between Tibet and the People’s Republic of China.

Sherab Tsedor, the young Tibetan activist, who has been carrying out a blindfolded rally across India, last week reached the Indian metropolitan city of Kolkata.

The 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile is scheduled to meet for its 4th session in September, days before the earlier announced Special Meeting of the Tibetans in Dharamshala.

After years of debate and careful deliberation, Tibetan Buddhist nuns are finally set to receive Geshema degrees (equivalent of a PHD in Buddhist Philosophy). The historical decision was arrived at a high-level meeting in Dharamshala.

A district court in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has cleared the name of 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje from a charge sheet filed in connection with the recovery of currency case last year.

Chen Guangcheng’s arrival in the United States over the weekend has drawn mixed reactions from Tibetans in the exile headquarters of Dharamshala. “As an activist, it would have been better if he had decided to stay back in China,”

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou began his second term in office on Sunday calling upon Beijing to improve its human rights record, treat dissidents fairly and open up its political process to greater popular participation.