By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Mar 20: Well known Tibetan activist Lhadon Tethong, the Co-Founder/Director of Tibet Action Institute (TAI) was honoured with the ‘Snow Lion Human Rights Prize’ by advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) on Saturday, for...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Mar 19: A substantial increase in the budget by almost 30 Crores (35,86,100.85 USD) for the fiscal year 2024-25 was proposed by the administration on Monday during the first day of the budget session (seventh...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 18: The High Court of Delhi has ruled to cancel the registration of ‘Dolma Aunty Momos’, a trademark which was registered to Mohd. Akram Khan, a resident of Uttar Pradesh on March 6. This ruling...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Mar 18: The condition and whereabouts of a well-known Tibetan writer and poet named Gendun Lhundrup who was reportedly arrested on unspecified charges since December 2020 in eastern Tibet’s so-called Qinghai province, continues to remain...

By Tsering Dhundup Dharamshala, March 15: A new resolution has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives titled “Recognizing the 65th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day of March 10, 1959, and condemning human rights violations related to the hydropower...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 15: On the occasion of the International Day of Action for Rivers, the Tibet Policy Institute, a think tank under the exile Tibetan government organized a panel discussion in Dharamshala titled “China’s Dam in Dege:...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 15: A Tibetan prisoner named Ludup, who had been held in prison for three and a half years, was released last month with injuries sustained during his incarceration where he had been compelled to undergo...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, March 15: The ongoing initiative by the current administration to gather comprehensive data of the exile Tibetan community through the ‘Household Listing Survey 2024’ was a much discussed topic in the ongoing sixth session of...

By Tsering Dhundup Dharamshala, 14 March: Months after the issue of Bon MP Monlam Tharchin’s alleged meeting with a Chinese embassy staff resulted in an adjournment of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile’s session in September last year, the Department of...

By Sharpa Rinpoche The Tibetan national flag is intimately connected with the authentic history and  royal lineages of Tibet which are  thousands of years old. In the Tibetan Royal year 820 or  in the seventh century, at the time...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 9: A cyber threat group with ties to China, identified as Evasive Panda, has been found to be responsible for a series of targeted cyberattacks against Tibetan users since September 2023 reported ESET on Thursday. The attacks,...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Mar. 7: The Chinese embassy in India has issued a statement condemning an Indian media channel’s interview with Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. The embassy alleges that the interview provided a platform to advocate “Taiwan independence,” on March...

By Tenzin Nyidon and Tenzin Dharpo DHARAMSHALA, Mar 7: Reports have emerged of a shocking incident where a 12-year-old nun enrolled at Namdroling Monastery, Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement in South India’s Karnataka state, has been sexually assaulted by a local Tibetan...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 6: U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk urged China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, particularly in the East Turkistan (Ch: Xinjiang) and Tibet, during a session in Geneva, Switzerland on...

By Vijay Kranti Jamyang Norbu’s book ‘ECHOES FROM FORGOTTEN MOUNTAINS : TIBET IN WAR AND PEACE’ is a monumental documentation of the brave armed fight of Tibetan people against a powerful and ruthless colonial power. It is going to...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 4:  Turkish authorities have detained six individuals in Istanbul on suspicion of spying on prominent Uyghur figures for China, with an ongoing search for another suspect, as reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency. The detainees...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, March 4: The respected Tibetan-Canadian Rabgey family based in Lindsay, Ontario, was awarded the ‘Meritorious Service Cross’ by Canada’s Governor General, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon in Ottawa, Canada on December 7. Phuntsok (Pencho) Rabgey,...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Mar 1: Chinese authorities have imposed lockdown on seven monasteries situated along the two banks of eastern Tibet’s Drichu River in Kham Dege, reported Radio Free Asia, which cited a local Tibetan source from the...

By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Mar 1: In a landmark moment, the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, widely known as the Berlinale selected “Shambhala,” for inclusion in this year’s prestigious line up. Directed by Nepalese filmmaker Min Bahadur Bham and...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Mar 1: Tibet has received a rating of zero for political rights and civil liberties, in the annual “Freedom in the World 2024” report. The US-based human rights and democracy organisation allocated a score of -2...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Mar. 1: Around 40 Tibetans have been released from among more than 1,000 people arrested by Chinese police for protesting against a dam project that threatens to submerge ancient monasteries and several villages, according to various...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Mar. 1: In a remarkable display of sporting feat, Tashi Tsering, a 21-year-old Tibetan athlete, etched his name in the annals of Chinese sports history by breaking the national half marathon record at the Meishan Renshou...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 28: Activist group Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) on Sunday organised a commemorative event at the Danny Foundation in Jackson Heights, New York, to honour the memory of Tsewang Norbu on the occasion...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Feb 28: The north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh will transform the escape trail of the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, into a religious and spiritual tourism circuit. Lumla, a lesser-known region in...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 26: The recent events surrounding the detention of over 1,000 Tibetan protestors and the ongoing crackdown on dissent in response to protests against a dam construction on the Drichu River in Kham Derge, have...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 26: Chinese police in Kham Dege have reportedly been conducting harsh interrogations of Tibetans who were detained for protesting against a dam project, with some subjected to severe beatings requiring medical attention, according to sources...

By Tenzin Nyidon and Tsering Dhundup The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 forced approximately 80,000 Tibetans to seek refuge in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Decades later, a demographic survey conducted by the Tibetan government in exile known officially...

By Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 23: A new video has surfaced showing Gonpo Kyi, sister of the imprisoned Tibetan businessman Dorjee Tashi peacefully protesting outside the People’s High Court in Lhasa on February 20. In the video, Gonpo Kyi...

By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, Feb 23: Five Tibetan NGOs organized a peace march in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala to show solidarity to Tibetans protesting against forced resettlement that will make way for a Chinese dam project on the Drichu River in...

By Tenzin NyidonDHARAMSHALA, Feb. 21: A letter to felicitate the 50th founding anniversary of the Kollegal Dhondenling Tibetan settlement in South India, by the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama discouraged the divisive leanings among exile Tibetans...