Vijender Sharma reports: The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) recommends the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to probe the deaths of Tibetans killed in the spring 2008 protests in Tibet and to adopt measures to prohibit and prevent enforced disappearances and to provide information on the fate of missing persons including the XIth Panchen [...]

V.K. Sharma reports: Mukesh Agnihotri Congress spokesperson has said the Party would  start “expose BJP campaign” in the state next few days. Talking to media persons here today he said, “The Congress has gathered information about alleged irregularities in the working of a few departments and the party would come out with facts and figures in [...]

Dharamshala: The home department of the Central Tibetan Administration has expressed its sympathy to the Tibetan families affected in the landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Shimla recently.
“Sixteen Tibetan shops consisting of 14 shops and 2 restaurants were destroyed in the natural calamity, but no casualties of human life have occurred,” Mr Ngodup Dorjee, acting [...]

MCLODGANJ: Tibet Support Groups and peace-loving people of the world to observe a 12-hour symbolic fasting and prayer on 30th August 2008 for world peace and, particularly, for the departed souls of the Tibetan people in recent months in Tibet. The appeal also re-commits ourselves to the path of non-violence.Tibetan Solidarity Committee will organise a [...]

DHARMSHALA—-Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) based at Dharmshala today received information from reliable sources about the arrest of four Tibetan youth in Nangchen County in north eastern Qinghai Province by the Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials for protesting against the Summer Festival planned by the Chinese government to greet the upcoming [...]

Dharmshala: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has expressed his highest respect and support for the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people, while regretting that travel schedules prevented him from a meeting with the Dalai Lama.
“I regret that our respective travel schedules will prevent us from meeting during your visit to the United States this [...]

SHARMA writes from Dharmshala: The Chinese security forces severely beaten and then arrested a nun of SamtenLing Nunnery in Drango County, Kardze “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture” (‘TAP’) Sichuan Province, following her act of defiance by staging a peaceful solo protest in Drango County, by raising pro-Tibet slogans and distributing pamphlets calling for ‘the swift return of [...]

V K  Sharma writes from Dharmshala: The Chinese security forces arrested twelve monks of Dingri Shelkar Choedhe Monastery during a night raid for opposing the “patriotic re-education” campaign , according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). 
The Chinese authorities re-launch and reinvigorate the “Patriotic re-education” campaign in [...]

Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, today visited the IGMC to enquire about the health of the injured Himachal Pradesh University students and directed the hospital authorities to provide best treatment for speedy recovery of the students. He assured the students that best efforts would be made to maintain best law and order conditions [...]

DHARMSHALA: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has documented numerous cases of protests particularly led by the nuns of various nunneries in Kardze County in the past few weeks. According to the latest information received by the TCHRD from a reliable source confirmed that, three nuns of Dragkar Nunnery and a female [...]

V K Sharma writes: In the recent spates of sporadic protests reported from Kardze County, more reports of protest led by group of two or four persons continue to surface from the area. According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), two young monks in their early 20’s [...]

Dharamshala:  Dalai Lama is visiting the UK  for ten days. Dalai lama is invited by  the Dharma Network,  Tibet Society UK, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet, the Blackfriars and the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies to give a series of public talks and teachings in London, Nottingham and Oxford.
During the visit His [...]

Dharamshala: The Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration organised a special prayer session Wednesday for the victims of the devastating earthquake that rocked southwestern parts of China.
The special prayer congregation was led by monks of the Namgyal Monastery at the Tsuglagkhang (main temple) in Dharamshala, on 14 May.
“The prayers [...]

Dharamshala: Taiwan Foreign Ministry honoured Mr Tsegyam, former representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Taiwan “The third rank Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon” award on 12 May 2008.
Mr. Tsegyam was bestowed with this award for building good relations with Taiwanese government and its people during his tenure as a representative of [...]