DHARAMSALA, 3 Dec: Three prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists; Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam have been sentenced to varying prison terms by a court in the city for organising an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in Wan Chai last June.
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DHARAMSALA, 2 Dec: Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) and Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective have collectively announced a new initiative, Tibet Films – an online streaming platform to showcase films made by Tibetan filmmakers in the diaspora.
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DHARAMSALA, 2 Dec: A Chinese activist, popularly known as ‘Ink Girl’ for defacing a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2018 has reappeared in a video declaring that she’s on “the verge of breaking down” under overbearing restrictions and surveillance that the Chinese government has subjected her to.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 Nov: Tashi Wangdue announced Sunday that he is withdrawing his candidacy from the upcoming election for the new Sikyong (President) of the Tibetan people.
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DHARAMSALA, 30 Nov: China has announced that it will build a hydropower project on the Brahmaputra, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan that originates from Tibet and passes to Bangladesh via India.
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DHARAMSALA, 27 Nov: The Tibetan Parliament-in-exile(TPIE ) has announced that its 10th session will be held for a fifteen-day from 15 March 2021 to debate and to approve the annual budget of the CTA and to discuss the work reports of the seven departments of the Central Tibetan Administration.
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DHARAMSALA, 25 Nov: Tenzin Choegyal, a Tibetan singer has been nominated for the 2021 Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry.
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DHARAMSALA, 25 Nov: India has yet again banned 43 more malicious Chinese mobile apps as it identifies them “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order.”
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DHARAMSALA, 23 Nov: “A historic feat,” says the Central Tibetan Administration(CTA) as its political head, President Dr Lobsang Sangay visits the White House.
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DHARAMSALA, 20 Nov: The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) has concluded that Dagri Rinpoche has committed sexual misconduct and spiritual abuse and announced its decision to permanently suspend the Tibetan spiritual teacher from the list of its registered teachers.
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