US lawmakers visit Dalai Lama to highlight situation in Tibet

A top Democratic leader has urged US President Donald Trump to raise violations of human rights in Tibet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, alleging the Communist regime "works to eliminate" the Tibetan religion. "President Xis government works to ...

A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in western China in an apparent protest against Beijings rule, a monitoring group and a US government-backed radio station said. The monk set himself ablaze in a public square on Saturday morning in Kardze, also ...

Tibet's first original cartoon series will hit TV screens next month, featuring stories about legendary Tibetan folk hero Agu Dainba, a Nasreddin-like figure. The Tibet Tianli Company will produce the cartoon, which will be broadcast via Tibetan media, ...

That China would be extremely upset over India allowing Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit the North East Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, was a given. China has, after all, been claiming most of the state as its own territory, identified as ...

The Dalai Lama's Arunachal visit is not likely to derail the India-China relationship but it is a signal to the Chinese that India is also willing to flash the Tibet/Taiwan card should the need arise, says Sana Hashmi. Image: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama being felicitated with an Assamese Japi during the platinum jubilee of the Assam Tribune Group in Guwahati on April 1, 2017. Photograph: PTI Photo. Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, will visit Arunachal ...

Ever since Major Gogoi rescued a team of election officials and security personnel from stone pelters, and ever since the Indian dispensation has cracked down on Hurriyat, the liberal network of Jihadi and Maoist backers are on an overdrive. The Army ...

'History will repeat itself after a decade or so and historians will point to the folly of May 2017 as the event that sowed the seeds of another 9/11,' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). With United States President Donald Trump's arrival in Saudi Arabia, the US expects to kick start an anti-Iran coalition. In Saudi Arabia, Trump will meet with 56 leaders of Sunni Muslim countries who have gathered in Riyadh. The conference marks the formation of a Sunni Muslim NATO, with a combined military ...