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Xi Jinping likely to visit India after seven years for BRICS Summit

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 25: Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to visit India next month to attend the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, in what could mark his first trip to the country in seven years and a...

CTA designates fourth week of September as ‘Tibetan Identity Preservation Week’

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 25: The exile Tibetan government officially known, as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has designated the fourth week of September every year as “Tibetan Identity Preservation Week,” calling on Tibetan communities and supporters worldwide to...

Tibetan representation shrinking under centralized Beijing rule: Report

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 24: The Washington-based advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), in its 2026 Tibet Leadership Report, warns that political governance in Tibetan areas is moving further away from meaningful Tibetan participation, autonomy, and representative decision-making;...

China tightens restrictions on online advocacy, prison visits for imprisoned Tibetan businessman 

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 21: Chinese authorities are continuing to suppress online advocacy and restrict prison visits concerning Tibetan businessman and philanthropist Dorjee Tashi, who has been imprisoned since 2008 and is serving a life sentence in Lhasa’s Drapchi...

Tibetan activist embarks on ‘Rangzen Yatra’ from Dharamshala to Delhi 

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 21: With a black backpack on his shoulders and the Tibetan National flag carried alongside the Indian flag, Tibetan activist Lhodrak Tharchin set out on a lone Rangzen march or Azad Yatra from Dharamshala’s Police Ground to...

Dharamshala march unified to honour late martyr Lobga Ranzgen 

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 20:  The morning air at the entrance to Tsuglakhang temple here in Dharamshala carried a mixture of mourning and charged momentum. Tibetans in dark clothes, many draped in the colours of the Tibetan national flag,...

Tibetan activists cycle 360 kms to Dharamshala in memory of martyr Lobga Rangzen

Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 19: Braving torrential monsoon showers, scorching heat, and challenging uphill stretches, a group of ten Tibetan activists completed a gruelling cycle rally of more than 360 kilometres from Paonta Sahib to Dharamshala over six days,...

Son of Chinese activist detained over Dalai Lama photo questions “separatism” charge

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 18: The son of imprisoned Chinese pro-democracy activist Zhang Yi has questioned the legal basis of the “inciting separatism” charge brought against his father, saying he cannot understand how the simple act of showing a photograph of...

Minnesota-Chicago ‘Peace Walk for Tibet’ in US reaches Wisconsin

DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 17: The ongoing ‘Peace Walk for Free Tibet’ in the United States from St. Paul, Minnesota to Chicago reached Milton, Wisconsin on Friday where members of the local community there including Kunga Norbu, nephew of His Holiness...

Tibetan youth completes 800-km peace walk from Dharamshala to Leh for language preservation 

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 17: Kalsang Tharchin, a Tibetan youth and solo marcher, reached the Tibetan settlement at Choglamsar in Leh at around 9 a.m. on Sunday, completing a month-long peace walk from Dharamshala to Ladakh to raise awareness...