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Tibetan government-in-exile

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Relentless mining for copper, gold, and lithium, sucking resources dry: How China is exploiting Tibet

Paurush Gupta - 21 May, 2024

China's excessive mining exploitation in occupied territories of Tibet has also led to health hazards, cultural subjugation of Tibetans, irreparable damage to land use patterns, pollution, severe environmental degradation, and disturbances to the pristine and ecologically sensitive Tibetan plateau.

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‘Now China is changing. The Chinese want to contact me’: Dalai Lama says he is open to talks with China over problems of Tibetans

ANI - 8 July, 2023

Dalai Lama said that he is open for talks with China over the problems of Tibetans and the Chinese, officially or unofficially, wanted to contact him.

World

Tibet erupts in massive protest against China, left without food and water, protestors say will set things on fire if COVID restrictions are not...

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2022

Some experts have stated that the Chinese authorities have not yet resorted to violence to crack down on anti-Covid protests because it involves not just Tibetans, but Han Chinese migrant workers too.

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China slams US Under Secretary Uzra Zeya’s meeting with Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, calls it interference in internal affairs

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2022

China condemns US Under Secretary Uzra Zeya's meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala in India

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Tibetan Parliament-in-exile condemns China after it criticised Indian MPs for participating in Tibetan Advocacy Campaign: Details of the statement

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2022

On December 22, 2021, 6 Indians MPs had attended a dinner reception hosted by the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile.

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BJD MP and APIPFI convener Sujit Kumar slams China for objecting to Indian MPs participating in Tibetan Advocacy Campaign

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2021

Political Counsellor of Chinese Embassy in India wrote to Indian MPs objecting to their participation in an event by Tibetan Parliament

Opinions

Why His Holiness the Dalai Lama deserves the Bharat Ratna: India will be honouring its own traditions of Karuna and Ahimsa

Tsewang Rigzin - 23 July, 2021

The life and message of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been an example of the principle of 'Nishkama Karma Yoga' from the Bhagwat Gita.

Specials

Dalai Lama’s 86th birthday: How the Tibetan spiritual leader escaped persecution and outsmarted China to cross over to India 62 years ago

Jinit Jain - 6 July, 2021

Dalai Lama XIV or Tenzin Gyatso as he is known with his worldly name was born on 6 July 1935 to a small farming family in the small hamlet of Taktser, Amdo, which is in northeastern Tibet.

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