Tag: Tibet
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China to build major hydropower project on Brahmaputra river: Report
Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China, said China will implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River.
November 30, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Target China beyond the border’
Equipped with his camera, he captured vivid details of Chinese suppression of Tibetan people, arts, culture, and religion besides their development of military infrastructure along borders with India.
October 10, 2020 -
India, China, Tibet
Nehru saw China as a partner to create a new post-colonial world, and his aspirations for a global role linked to a big power neglected India’s national and security priorities at great cost. This should be an enduring lesson for our present and future governments.
September 19, 2020 -
Pranab Mukherjee led meaningful life: Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama recalled having had the honour of meeting Mukherjee on several occasions over the years, most recently in 2016.
September 1, 2020 -
Indian spy satellite passes over Tibet; China mobilises troops in Depsang along LAC
The satellite which carries Kautilya, an ELINT (electronic intelligence) package whose capabilities are among the most highly-classified and closely-guarded aspects of operation for military purposes on Saturday carried out a pass over PLA positions in occupied Tibet near Arunachal Pradesh.
July 27, 2020 -
6.6-magnitude earthquake jolts Tibet; no casualties reported
The epicenter was monitored at 33.19 degrees north latitude and 86.81 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km.
July 23, 2020 -
US announces visa restrictions for Chinese officials under Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act
In a statement, Pompeo said that access to Tibetan areas is increasingly vital to regional stability, given the PRC’s human rights abuses there, as well as Beijing’s failure to prevent environmental degradation near the headwaters of Asia’s major rivers.
July 8, 2020 -
US slams ‘oppressive Chinese regime,’ thanks India for hosting Dalai Lama and ‘Tibetans in freedom’ since 1959
'Sadly, the aspirations of His Holiness and the Tibetan people remain unfulfilled as the oppressive Chinese regime continues its disgraceful campaign of persecution,' Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives said.
July 7, 2020 -
In Tibetan freedom struggle, hopes for major Indian role
Notably, the Tibetan Youth Congress and the Tibetan Women Organization jointly took out a rally in Darjeeling, appealing people to boycott Chinese products.
July 2, 2020 -
Festering frontier
India ought long ago to have called Chinas bluff whenever the latter infringed into territories perceived by India as its own. It was China that started this game of infrastructure development quite early in the narrative. When China built a 1200-km long road in 1956 across Aksai Chin, of which some 180-km was claimed by India, to carve a route for Sianking, its westernmost province, into Tibet, India was caught napping.
June 15, 2020 -
Standoff at LAC
China is on the horns of a dilemma. Can it afford to risk losing the sovereignty over a part of its proud belt and road project? That would not be the end of the saga of sovereignty. At stake would be Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, the Muslim province to its west which Mao Zedong captured rather curiously in 1950; it was formerly known as East Turkestan.
June 6, 2020 -
25 years on, Tibetans still await release of 11th Panchen Lama
The abduction took place soon after Tibetan spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama.
May 17, 2020 -
‘Let him free and let world know where he is’: US tells China on Tibetan Panchen Lama’s disappearance
In 1995, a young Tibetan boy Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was recognised as the 11th Panchen Lama, the second highest spiritual authority in Tibetan Buddhism after Dalai Lama. Days later Nyima had disappeared.
May 15, 2020 -
5.9-magnitude earthquake hits Tibet, no casualties reported
The epicentre was monitored at 28.63 degrees north latitude and 87.42 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
March 20, 2020 -
Dalai Lama advises Tibetans to chant mantra to contain Coronavirus
A Central Tibetan Administration official said as the deadly Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread across the world bringing the death toll to nearly 1800, Tibetans of the Tawu region in Tibet wrote to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama seeking his advice.
February 17, 2020 -
US House of Representatives passes bill on sanctions against Chinese officials on Dalai Lama’s succession
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill sends a clear signal to Beijing that it will be held accountable for interfering in Tibet’s religious and cultural affairs.
January 29, 2020 -
Harsh winter, heavy snowfall have recharged Ice Stupas in Ladakh
These artificial glaciers provide abundant water during summers in the Phayang and adjoining areas of Ladakh where the temperature was hovering around -20 degrees Celsius.
January 22, 2020