By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARMSALA 3 Feb: The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, at 90, has won his first Grammy Award for Best Audiobook, Narration & Storytelling Recording for his audiobook “Meditations: The Reflection of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, published on 29 August 2025.

DHARAMSALA, 14 Jan: A Tibetan exile who recently reunited with family members from Lhasa in Nepal has learned of increasingly “harsh restrictions and surveillance measures” imposed in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa and the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Ironically, the reunion itself carried significant risk as Kathmandu recently made it to the headlines with thousands of Chinese-supplied CCTV cameras monitoring streets and public spaces throughout the capital.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 3 Feb: Himachal Pradesh Police on Monday arrested a Chinese national in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala – the residence of the Dalai Lama- for allegedly staying in India without a valid visa. Preliminary investigations suggest that the suspect previously served in the Chinese police.

Universities bordering Tibet, set up to train new gen cadres to run Tibet for China, now ordered to escalate assimilation, promote Han Chinese racist chauvinism, cancel Tibetan identity, says Gabriel Lafitte, Gabriel Lafitte who is an environmental researcher, writer, and activist who has specialised in Tibet and China-Tibet relations