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In a first initiative of its kind, the Central Tibetan Administration launched the Tibet Corps, a project offering Tibetan professionals and university students an opportunity to serve the exile community through a voluntary service programme.

Former Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche today expressed “alarm” at the self-immolations in Tibet but said that until China commits to address the genuine grievances of the Tibetan people, it was not possible to discourage these acts of sacrifice.

A group of Tibetan youths from the Tibetan settlement of Doeguling, Mundgod in the south Indian state of Karnataka launched a bike rally earlier today in solidarity with the ongoing wave of self-immolations inside Tibet.

Indians living in northeast India have come out in strong support of a “peaceful democratic” regime in Tibet, where Tibetans can “take their own decisions to cherish lives.”

The second largest non-governmental organisation in the Tibetan exile community, Tibetan Women’s Association convened its six-day 10th General Body Meeting earlier today in Dharamshala, the Tibetan exile headquarters.

The continued mass detention of Tibetans after they returned from pilgrimage to India and Nepal has thrown life for farming families in awry. With members of their families in detention, many farming households in Tibet have been forced to abandon their fields.

A Tibetan teen studying in the United Sates has been selected as a Global Teen Leader for the year 2012. Teens from 37 countries were in the fray for the international recognition.

The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile expressed gratitude to the United States Senate on Thursday for unanimously passing a resolution calling on China to end the ongoing crisis inside Tibet.

Exile Tibetans are gearing up for major political campaigns in the coming weeks in light of the ongoing crisis inside Tibet. Leading from the front, the Dharamshala based Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has set up a five-member committee of parliamentarians to pilot an international campaign to highlight Tibet’s deteriorating human rights situation.

A Tibetan filmmaker will debut at the world’s most prestigious film festival, the annual Cannes Film Festival. Tsering Tashi Gyalthang’s short film “Turtle Soup” will be screened among the top 20 films at the 65th Cannes film festival's Short Film Corner (May 16-27).