By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 26 June: The McLeod Ganj post office has set a record for earnings in the country in 2023-2024, for any post office in India in 2023-2024, earning a record Rs 1.81 crore, The Tribune reported citing Nitin Dixit, Postmaster of the hill stations’s post office on Tuesday.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 25 June: The Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the inauguration of a new campus of Nalanda University near Rajgir, Bihar. Expressing his commitment “to creating greater interest and awareness in ancient Indian knowledge,” the Nobel Peace laureate said, “It is wonderful that a new Nalanda University has been established in this historic location—may it prosper and thrive.”
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 24 June: The president of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, today slammed China’s threat of the death penalty for Taiwan’s independence advocates, saying, “Democracy is not a crime; it’s autocracy that is the real evil,” alluding to the autocratic communist regime that rules China.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 24 June: Hundreds of Tibetans in the US gathered to welcome their spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as he arrived in New York yesterday to receive medical treatment for his knees.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 16 May: Eric, a seasoned former Chinese spy, revealed in an interview with ABC News published yesterday that he had visited Dharamsala and met with the Dalai Lama as part of his espionage task in 2016.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 8 May: China’s National Defence Education Law is being revised, mandating that students in universities, high schools, and middle schools to undergo mandatory military training, according to a report by Nikkei Asia today.
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By Tsering Choephel DHARAMSALA, 7 May: Activists from Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) and the International Tibet Network (ITN)
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 4 May: Tibetans living in France and neighbouring European countries are gearing up to stage what the Student for a Free Tibet (SFT) stated will be “the biggest unwelcoming protest of Xi’s Europe trip” as China’s president is scheduled to arrive in France tomorrow.
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By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 1 May: Tim Loughton, a member of the British parliament, called Djibouti, an East African country, “a vassal state of China” following his detention and deportation shortly after his arrival in the country on 8 April, according to several online reports.
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