News Source: Telegraph India
| 25 days ago
The Dalai Lama has sent a message to Tibetan exiles in Sikkim at a time the community is marking 50 years of its stay in the state and just two days before his contentious trip to Arunachal Pradesh. China has objected to the Dalai Lamas visit to...
News Source: Times Online
| 25 days ago
The tiny outpost in northeastern India repeatedly changed hands in the chaos that accompanied the birth of Communist China and independent India. The last time was in 1962, when Chinese troops briefly overran the Himalayan town and the surrounding...
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 26 days ago
This remote town in the Himalayan foothills spruced up its monasteries Friday to prepare for the Dalai Lama's arrival, a trip highlighting the growing friction between China and India — two nuclear-armed giants vying for economic and political...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 26 days ago
India has prevented foreign journalists from travelling with the Dalai Lama to the disputed Himalayan territory of Arunachal Pradesh, in a sign of border tensions with China. Despite strong opposition from Beijing, the Tibetan spiritual leader will...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 26 days ago
The Dalai Lama is a religious leader and he, of course, can travel to carry out that role," US under secretary of state for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero told journalists here. "He (Dalai Lama) is visiting a monastery, a holy place. And...
News Source: Rediff
| 26 days ago
C hina expert M Taylor Fravel believes the issue of the Dalai Lama's [ Images ] visit to Arunachal Pradesh, in the long-term, will probably not worsen relations between the two countries. "I think it will probably be overblown...I don't think it will...