Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug.10: The 17th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS), scheduled to bring more than 700 scholars and researchers to Kathmandu from August 23 to 29, has been moved online after the Government of...

By Kaydor Aukatsang The struggle for our homeland must be financed by us. If we don’t, no one will. In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Tilak Swaraj Fund, which raised around one crore rupees in six months through mass...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 8: The Cabinet of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) will jointly hold a prayer service and peace march in Dharamsala on August 20 to commemorate the 49th day since...

By Tsering Youdon ( Ex-TIPA) One person’s journey through life encompasses countless stories. Some are told by others, while some we are fortunate enough to witness ourselves. This is one such story of Gen Lobsang Samten la—a story in...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 7: Gonpo Tsering, 46, an administrator at Yena Monastery in Derge, Sichuan Province (Tibetan area of Kham) who was detained during protests against China’s controversial Kamtok hydropower project in eastern Tibet remains in critical condition...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 7:  Human rights watch dog Amnesty International has called on Chinese authorities to immediately release veteran Chinese pro-democracy activist Zhang Yi, condemning his arrest in Tibet after he allegedly showed a photograph of the Tibetan spiritual leader His...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 6: A series of coordinated activism unfolded in Dharamshala on Thursday as Tibetan non-governmental organisations and individuals intensified calls for Tibetan independence and renewed international attention to China’s policies in Tibet, with initiatives paying tribute...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 5: The Government of Nepal has cancelled the 17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS), an internationally renowned academic conference that was scheduled to take place in Kathmandu from August 23 to...

Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 5: The Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC), the apex judicial body of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Wednesday conducted the first hearing on Case No. 23, filed by plaintiff Tenzin Khedup against the Central...

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 4: Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Monday arrested Joint Secretary Pushpa Raj Bhattarai of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with a 17-year-old passport fraud case involving the alleged illegal issuance of...