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Statistics releases by a Chinese state company say that more than 49 million people have travelled on the Gormo-Lhasa railway since the route opened in July 2006 with an average 10.3 percent annual passenger increase.

A Tibetan activist has been rallying across the length and breadth of India with his eyes blindfolded to highlight the “plight” of the Tibetan people inside Tibet and the “indifference” shown by the United Nations and world leaders. Sherab Tsedor, a Tibetan youth, began his blindfolded march

In another instance of forced removal of Tibetan nomads from their grasslands, Chinese authorities have grabbed land from three Tibetan nomadic villages in eastern Tibet. The land confiscated from the Setong, Dragmar, and Seru villages will be given to thousands of new Chinese migrants.

The Education Department of Central Tibetan Administration yesterday held a daylong college orientation programme for class 12 graduate students in the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala.

Amidst growing repression and heightened tensions in Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, eastern Tibet, its exile branch monastery in Dharamshala on Saturday commemorated the Kirti Rinpoche lineage’s 600 years of teachings of the Buddha dharma.

Adam Yauch, one-third of the Beastie Boys and a staunch supporter of the free Tibet movement, died at the age of 47. The musician, director and Tibet activist was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer and passed away in New York yesterday.

After refusing to stay tuned to the Chinese order to give up 60% of land, and get rid of 54% of animals within this year, Chinese authorities in Qinghai province of Tibet forcibly confiscated the land from the Tibetan nomads to give to the Chinese migrants.

Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile has withdrawn support to the exile Tibetan family, who are on a march to Tibet carrying a Chinese flag, calling their act a “blotch in exile history.”

One of the exile community’s most popular annual events, the Miss Tibet contest has been cancelled in the wake of the “very grim” circumstances in Tibet. In a short notice, Lobsang Wangyal, director of the Miss Tibet pageant made the announcement

Led by H.E. the 11th Kirti Rinpoche, Tibetans here in the exile headquarters of Dharamshala held a mass prayer service for the 36 Tibetans who have set their bodies on fire in the ongoing wave of self-immolations in Tibet.