Covid-19 positive girl in Dharamshala asymptomatic, shifted to district quarantine facility
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, June 22: A 19-year-old Tibetan girl who tested positive for Covid-19 has been shifted to the district institutional quarantine facility in Dadh near Chamunda in Kangra district, after test results on Sunday confirmed her infection to the virus. The Tibetan girl reached Dharamshala on June 8 and was quarantined at the […]
Beijing to link a new railway line from Tibet to Arunachal by 2021
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, June 22: China’s growing infrastructure is making huge investments in the border areas of Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. State-owned companies completed part of an important railway bridge on the Yarlung Tsangpo on Saturday, reported HT. This is part of Beijing’s 435-km railway project linking Lhasa and Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous […]
Opinion:Bloodbath at the gate of the roof of the world. Modi must rise to China’s bullies.
By Ugyen Gyalpo The latest brutal fist fights on the gates of the roof the world and the killings of twenty brave Indian soldiers by the Chinese Troops has led the harshest Indian summer simmer to a boiling point already crippled under the weight of the coronavirus. Under the cover of pandemic that crippled India, […]
Chinese court rejects Tibetan anti-corruption activist’s appeal
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, June 19: Prominent Tibetan environmentalist and anti-corruption activist, Anya Sengdra’s court appeal has been rejected by the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate Court on Wednesday. The Tibetan activist received a seven-year prison sentence in Dec 2019 for his peaceful campaign against corruption by Chinese government officials along with 8 other Tibetans […]
Prominent Tibetan NGOs condemn China’s incursion into Indian territory
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, June 18: Five prominent Tibetan Non-Governmental Organisations, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT), Gu-Chu-Sum Movement Association of Tibet and the Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) held a joint press conference on Thursday to condemn China for the recent attack at the Indo-Tibet […]
Concept of warfare is outdated, says Dalai Lama
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, June 17: The exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama while responding to a question by noted author Pico Iyer said, “The concept of warfare is related to feudal system,” and therefore “gone” and outdated. The foremost Buddhist figure was engaged in a virtual conversation with Iyer as part of […]
TCHRD’s 2019 Annual Report highlights China’s growing intolerance for political dissent
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, June 17: The Dharamshala-based human rights group, Tibetans Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) released its 2019 annual report on the human rights situation in Tibet on Tuesday. The report detailed accounts of unfair trials, the crackdown on online ‘illegal’ activities, enforced use of bilingual education policy, information blackout, and […]
Opinion: Memories of the Past and Beijing’s Refusal to Remember
By Tenzin Wangdak 2020 will be remembered not only for the COVID – 19 pandemic that has effectively brought large sections of global society to a screeching standstill but also for the fundamental changes it has induced in the field of communication. Once the domain of the physical realm, interaction between individuals has increasingly […]
New updates: 20 Indian soldiers dead, 43 Chinese casualties after LAC clash
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, June 17: The Indian Army has made new revelations late Tuesday night that confirmed the death of 20 Indian soldiers marking a sharp rise from the earlier tally of just 3. While China has made no confirmation on the casualty of their side, ANI reported there have been 43, including those […]
Three Indian military personnel dead as Indo-China tension escalates
By Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, June 16: A commanding officer and two soldiers have died on the Indian side after a violent clash with Chinese counterparts on Monday night in the Galwan valley in Ladakh, the Army said Tuesday. Galwan valley is one of the three points where Indian and Chinese forces have locked horns at […]