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Indo-Tibetan border trade along the old 'Silk Route' resumed in 2004 but even after seven years, Indian authorities say that no Tibetan trader has been allowed to enter into India by the Chinese government.

The 11 monks from a Tibetan monastery in south India are into their first week of their all India march hunger strike protest. The monks from Gaden Jangtse monastery, Mundgod reached Chennai on September 8 after carrying their protest to Baroda in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

The 17th Gyalyum Chemo Memorial (GCM) Football Tournament will be held in Doeguling Tibetan Settlement, Mundgod in the south Indian state of Karnataka. "The tournament will be from September 25 to October 3 and 14 teams

“If you criticize Islam due to a few mischievous Muslims, then you have to criticise all world religions," the Dalai Lama said in a keynote address at an interfaith meet explaining that “all religions - including his own - have faithful who carry the seeds of destructive emotions within them.”

Following last week’s sentencing of three Tibetan monks to lengthy jail terms, two more Tibetans have been given jail terms in separate incidents in eastern Tibet for carrying out protests against Chinese rule.

Exile Uyghur groups say that five ethnic Uyghur Muslims were detained for refusing to honour the Chinese national flag at a flag raising ceremony held inside a mosque in the volatile north-western region of China

The private office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is yet to receive any information from the South African government regarding the Tibetan spiritual leader’s scheduled visit to the Proteas nation, Phayul has learned.

In this northern Indian hill town, a steady stream of Tibetans enters a small, windowless office in search of legal advice. Red-robed monks, the elderly, parents with children, and young couples all seat themselves in plastic chairs across from Vinayak Sharma.

The 11th meeting of Tibetan religious heads has been scheduled for September here in Dharamshala, the exile seat of Tibetans under guidance from the private office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

In keeping with his promise to give “number one priority to education,” Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay held a two day meeting with principals of ten Tibetan schools in New Delhi last Saturday and Sunday.