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Calls for more stringent measures in Tibet are echoing from the power corridors of Beijing, days ahead of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress which meets Monday.

Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay was yesterday awarded the Gold Medal of the College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse by the Auditor of the Society, Ms Ursula Ni Choill.

H.E. the Ninth Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Dorjee Chang Jampel Namdrol Choekyi Gyaltsen, the spiritual head of the Jonang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and the spiritual head of Mongolia, passed away earlier today in Mongolia. He was 80.

The three Tibetan school students, who have been pedalling across the length of India, covering major cities and towns for the last forty five days, concluded their ‘Cycle Rally for Tibet’ in New Delhi.

Tibetan students in the Indian capital stormed the venue of an ongoing meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi and his Indian counterpart SM Krishna earlier today.

Tsering Woeser, the award-winning Tibetan writer and blogger has been barred from collecting an award from the Netherlands Embassy in Beijing and issued a month-long house arrest order.

Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay will receive the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from the College Historical Society of Trinity College, Dublin tomorrow

A hard-hitting report by an independent group of Indian analysts has warned that China may resort to territorial grabs on India, including through a "major military offensive."

Signs of physical deterioration have now started showing on the three hunger strikers who are now into the second week of their indefinite fast outside the United Nations headquarters in New York.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama presided over the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine conference at the Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College near his exile hometown of Dharamshala earlier today