In honour of the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday, New Delhi has hosted a celebration on 4 January to mark the life and accomplishments of the spiritual leader. Despite the Dalai Lama’s milestone birthday having passed in July 2014, his busy schedule has meant that a celebration in India was unable to take place until now.
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Indian police have been framing China by accusing that Chinese spies were out to assassinate Tibetan spiritual guru the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, according to a report carried by the Chinese state media on Monday.
Quoting government statements, the state media report claimed that the allegations levelled by the Dalai Lama that China was preparing to assassinate him were a stunt to attract international attention.
Read moreOur exile system of government claims to be a democracy, but recent events have proven it to be quite the opposite. Yes, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has brought about a fundamental change in the system of government, transitioning from a theocracy to a parliamentary theocracy, to one that he hoped, after the devolvement of his political power, would become a truly democratic one. The truth is that we have failed to make his vision of a democratic and pluralistic exile community a living reality.
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he high-intensity earthquake which struck India’s northeastern region early this morning also jolted parts of Tibet with many residents waking
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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is disputing a Reuters report that it became aware four years ago China likely had hacked into Hotmail accounts belonging to Tibetan and Uighur minority leaders,
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Depending on who you ask, anywhere from a few hundred thousand to upwards of seven million Han (ethnically Chinese) have immigrated into Tibet Autonomous Region since it was invaded by China in 1950—but according to an international team of researchers, these Han are having a hard time reproducing in the high altitudes there.
Read moreBEIJING (Reuters) – China expressed anger on Monday after a group of Filipino protesters landed on a disputed Philippine-held island in the disputed South China Sea.
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Pratibha Chauhan/Tribune News Service Shimla, December, 30: The state police have sought additional funds and manpower to beef up security
Read moreThe Dalai Lama, slightly stooped and with a grin across his clean-shaven face, plays with a Hindu guru’s beard in Maharashtra. Next, he holds an emaciated leprosy patient in New Delhi, his hands gently touching the man’s cheeks. Thereafter, he stands tall, his eyebrows arched and his mouth slightly ajar, while addressing a large audience at the main temple in Dharamsala.
Read moreMUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Articles in a Congress mouthpiece questioning Jawaharlal Nehru’s Kashmir and China policy and calling Sonia Gandhi’s father a “fascist soldier” today left the party squirming in embarrassment, forcing its editor Sanjay Nirupam to apologize and sack its editorial content in-charge.
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