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The fearless Tibetan writer and blogger Woeser has been awarded a Prince Claus Award for the year 2011 by the Netherlands-based Prince Claus Fund. Calling the 44-year old a “courageous Tibetan writer,” the Prince Claus Fund

China and Pakistan are planning to build a railway line connecting the two countries from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) to Kashgar, an old Chinese Silk road town in the restive north-western Xinjiang province

His Holiness the Dalai Lama inaugurated the Centre for Tibetan Studies at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India’s largest distant learning education centre in Delhi, today in the afternoon.

Trulshik Rinpoche, one of the His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's teachers and head of the Nyingma school left for his heavenly abode last Friday at the age of 88. Trulshik Rinpoche was born in Lho Talung, Tibet in 1923

The discovery of a newly identified species of primitive woolly rhino, dating to 3.6 million years ago on the Tibetan plateau, scientists say, shows that the isolated Himalayan land served as the evolutionary cradle for Ice Age mega plant-eaters.

A gathering of dozen elite Chinese political, economic and legal scholars - including top government advisers warned that the Communist Party of China faces a legitimacy crisis due to long overdue political reforms and its obsession with stability.

A group of 11 Tibetan monks from GadenJangtse monastery, Mungod, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are starting a pan Indian hunger strike march across the major cities in the country to express solidarity with the freedom struggle being carried out by Tibetans inside Tibet.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal assured his support for the Tibetan cause in front of a gathering of top Tibetan dignitaries and local Indians and Tibetans in Dharamshala today. CM Dhumal was speaking as the chief guest marking the 51st Democracy Day of the exile Tibetan set-up.

After the recent citing of a reported Chinese spy ship in Indian waters and the war-ready military build up on the Tibetan side of the border, the Indian military is planning its own special strike force. A newspaper based in Singapore has reported that India is adding a special strike force of 35,000 – 40,000 soldiers

Lobsang Tenzin, a Tibetan political prisoner, jailed for the last 23 years and currently in Lhasa’s Chushul prison is being described in “critical health condition”