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Niranjan Kaggere, Bangalore Mirror |November 4, 2015

They will now hold lands in their own names under leases to grow crops but will not be eligible to transfer, mortgage or pledge leased lands to anyone else

[ANI] Dharamsala, Nov 2 : Police arrested three accused for allegedly killing a Tibetan youth in hill town of Dharamsala.

[REUTERS] BEIJING, Oct 31: A former top Chinese security official in Tibet will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said yesterday, in a rare example of corruption-busters going into the restive and remote region.

Claude Arpi, The Statesman| 29 October, 2015

Sometimes, though it is rare, one reads some good news in the national press. One of these refreshing items, for me at least, was the visit of the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) posts in Gunji and Kalapani of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand.

[AP] PESHAWAR, Oct 27: Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day’s earthquake rose to 339.

[PTI] DHARAMSALA, Oct 24: Spiritual leader the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorge today asked Tibetans across the globe to reflect on the circumstances that led them into exile as he reminded them about their responsibility as refugees.