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Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his sadness and concern over the loss of lives in the unfolding flash flood tragedy in Philippines.

Even as India and China are gearing up to resume boundary talks next month, Indian Defence Minister admitted Wednesday that Chinese soldiers damaged a 200 feet stone wall in Tawang region of eastern India earlier this year.

The Russian Federal State Education Institute 'Tuva State University' awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama yesterday, here in town.

The Alliance for Tibetan Musicians, a group of Tibetan artistes, will be organising a concert during the upcoming Kalachakra teachings at Bodh Gaya in Bihar in honor of the Tibetans who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Tibet

An expert on majority-minority relations in China and India, and the author of numerous hard-hitting articles on Tibet, Dibyesh Anand warned Tibetans in India of more vulnerability in the future. Speaking to a select audience at the Tibetan exile headquarters of Dharamshala

The exiled Tibetan leadership said that it was “deeply disturbed and concerned” over recent reports of violence against Tibetan students at a Chinese school in Chengdu. 


Reminiscent of the Mao era, a senior Chinese Communist Party member has revived the hard line rhetoric against religion by reaffirming that the party’s “principled stance regarding forbidding members from believing in religion has not changed one iota."

The ongoing standoff between villagers and Chinese security personnel in Wukan has sparked similar protests in a neighbouring village. Over a thousand villagers in Longtou village protested against local government authorities, charging them of corruption and illegal land grabs

Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama began his three-day teaching at the request of Russian devotees earlier today in his exile residence of Dharamshala, north India. Thousands of devotees, including 1300 Russians, around one thousand Tibetans from Tibet,

Vaclav Havel, a close friend of the Dalai Lama and a longtime supporter of the Tibetan people, died earlier today at his home in the northern Czech Republic after a prolonged illness. He was 75. Born in 1936, Vaclav Havel rose to prominence as a dissident playwright in the 1970s