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Arunachal celebrates Dalai Lama’s birthday
The Times of India, 8 July 2016 Itanagar: The 81st birth anniversary of the Dalai Lama was celebrated at Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery (Lower Gompa) at Bomdila in West Kameng district on Wednesday. The day-long programme started with a special prayer session, ceremonial sangsol and serkyem offering at the Lower read more →
‘Himalayan Viagra’: Tibet’s Gold Rush May Be Coming To An End
High on the Tibetan plateau, on the sides of steep green valleys dotted with herds of grazing yaks, beneath forbidding snow-clad peaks, a line of adults and children crouch and crawl across the slopes. They are hunting – not for game but for a tiny brown shoot poking just an read more →
Dalai Lama’s 81st birthday celebrated
MOS Home Kiran Rijiju at the 81st Birthday celebrations of the Dalai Lama at the tibetan settlement camp in New Delhi on wednesday. Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal New Delhi Indian Express, 6 July 2016 The 81st birthday of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was celebrated with artists and read more →
Dalai Lama may be remembered but not publicly in Lhasa even on birthday
By Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, Lhasa, 06 July 2016 “In my heart,” the sun-burnt Tibetan said of his plans to observe the Dalai Lama’s 81st birthday before quietly fading into a crowd of tourists and believers heading into the Sera monastery outside Lhasa on Wednesday morning. Elsewhere in the read more →
Comic tribute to Dalai Lama on his 81st b’day
Lalit Mohan, Tribune News Service, Dharamsala, July 6 As the Dalai Lama turns 81 today, a special tribute was paid to him by Hindi author Vijay Kranti by releasing a cartoon book illustrating the life of the Tibetan spiritual leader. The author today released, a first of its kind, a read more →
Still young at 81, it’s to do with peace of mind, says Dalai Lama
By Vishal Gulati, 5 July 2016 Dharamsala, July 5 (IANS) Eighty-one and still young. The Dalai Lama believes it’s to do with peace of mind. Turning 81 on July 6, his age is no bar to campaign for global peace, happiness and, of course, saving the small blue planet from read more →
China-India Relations After the NSG Plenary
By Deep Pal, Published in The Diplomat, 27 June 2016 Make no mistake: India’s failure to win membership in the NSG will shape Sino-Indian relations. Few analysts following developments at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in South Korea expected India’s membership bid to sail through. As the dust settles, read more →
Tibetan director detained, hospitalized in China: film guild
Reuters, 29 June 2016 An award-winning Tibetan film director has been detained and suffered serious injury while in police custody, a Chinese film directors’ guild said on Wednesday, though police said he was only lightly injured being taken away from a luggage dispute. Pema Tseden, a renowned Tibetan filmmaker best read more →
US pop star Lady Gaga interviews Dalai Lama
The Times of India, 29 June 2016 Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (81) was interviewed by American pop singer Lady Gaga on the concluding day of his 19-day US tour. The office for international relation and information of the Tibetan government-in-exile flashed this information on its news portals on read more →
China Suspends Diplomatic Contact With Taiwan
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ, New York Times, 25 June 2016 BEIJING — In a sign of growing friction between China and Taiwan, mainland diplomats said Saturday that they had suspended contact with their Taiwanese counterparts because the island’s new leader would not endorse the idea of a single Chinese nation. read more →
China’s great betrayal: Why did India’s eastern neighbour block the NSG bid?
First Post, 24 June 2016 China stonewalling India’s entry into NSG from the shadows despite multiple ambiguous statements from Beijing (all orchestrated by the Chinese government since all media in China is state controlled), was on predictable lines. Grouping Pakistan with India in saying both must join NPT first means read more →
India’s NSG bid stops at China wall
Times Of India, 24 June 2016 NEW DELHI: China remained the last major obstacle in the way of India’s membership bid in the Nuclear Suppliers Group as 47 of 48 members supported New Delhi’s application at the group’s special plenary session in Seoul on Thursday. The session debated until midnight read more →
Britain votes to leave EU in historic divorce: BBC
By Guy Faulconbridge and Alistair Smout, Reuters, 23 June 2016 Britain has voted to leave the European Union, the BBC said based on voter tallies from Thursday’s referendum, an outcome that would set the country on an uncertain path and deal the largest setback to European efforts to forge greater read more →
Dalai Lama visits Utah, talks about China, compassion and humanity
Associated Press, 22 June 2016 The Dalai Lama delivered his message of peace and compassion Tuesday to thousands of people during a visit to Utah that included a luncheon with the governor and a planned meeting with senior Mormon leaders. The Tibetan spiritual leader encouraged the audience at the University read more →
India and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
By Ashok Sajjanhar, June 19, 2016 – The Diplomat What India’s membership means for the organization as well as New Delhi. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expected to witness its first expansion since its establishment 15 years ago at the forthcoming Summit in Tashkent on June 23-24, 2016. At read more →