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The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, is celebrating his 88th birthday at his hillside Indian headquarters in Dharamsala

Three years after the violent clash between Indian and Chinese forces in Galwan followed by tanks facing each other around the Pangong Tso — a lake spanning eastern Ladakh and western Tibet — there is hectic activity in the area from both sides. While China is rushing to complete a…

335-foot-tall tree found in region with one of the highest height and distribution density of giant trees

Tibetan leader Penpa Tsering says the situation there resembles George Orwell's 1984 where citizens have been surveilled and culture has been suppressed.

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From its source in Tibet, the Brahmaputra river flows through northeast India to Bangladesh, merging there with its equally mighty sister, the Ganges, and draining into the Bay of Bengal. A cruise along its Indian stretch on the “elegant” 18-cabin river boat Charaidew II is a delight, says Sophy Roberts…

In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country’s religious groups should practice their faiths.

China's President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on Tibet to build a prosperous, harmonious and "new socialist Tibet" underpinned by unity and civility, days after Group of Seven (G7) nations expressed concern over human rights in the region.

With his death, Tibet has lost a voice that spoke with great humanity through images and words about the challenges and hardships of being Tibetan in 21st-century China.

The Arunachal Pradesh stretch of the LAC separating India from the Tibetan region controlled by China is 1,129 km. Beijing disputes the border, claiming some 90,000 sq. km of Arunachal Pradesh as its territory. 

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