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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 29, 2026.
The decision was communicated personally by Nepal’s Chief Secretary, Govinda Bahadur Karkee, following consultations with Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai. According to organizers, senior officials at Kathmandu University were instructed not to proceed with hosting the conference, bringing an abrupt end to nearly four years of planning for what was expected to be one of the largest gatherings of Tibet scholars in recen...
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