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  • After 11 weeks of reduction, Covid instances have increased by 7.5 percent.

    After 11 weeks of reduction, Covid instances have increased by 7.5 percent.

    Fresh Covid-19 cases in India increased week over week for the first time in 12 weeks since the second wave peaked in early May, perhaps signaling the start of a new wave of the pandemic in the country. The current rise, however, is confined to Kerala and, to a lesser extent, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.…

  • Covid-19: India experiences seven consecutive days of surges, with scientists predicting a third wave later this month.

    Covid-19: India experiences seven consecutive days of surges, with scientists predicting a third wave later this month.

    India reported 40,134 new Covid-19 cases and 422 deaths on Monday, bringing the total number of positive cases to 3,16,95,958. After the reduction in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of Covid-19 cases increased week over week for the first time since mid-May. The latest changes could be precursors to the much-anticipated…

  • Terchen Taksham Rinpoche, a teen, enjoys faith, school, and football.

    Terchen Taksham Rinpoche, a teen, enjoys faith, school, and football.

    Jalue Dorje is a typical American kid in most ways: he grew up in a Minneapolis suburb and enjoys football, Pokemon, and rap music. Yet, in a few years, he plans to leave his family and birthplace and join a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, where he has been recognized as a reincarnated Lama by…

  • Dalai Lama’s former interpreter: Dalai Lama is China’s greatest threat

    Dalai Lama’s former interpreter: Dalai Lama is China’s greatest threat

    China views the Dalai Lama as the greatest of their opponents, whom they cannot defeat, according to Geshe Dorji Damdul, the Dalai Lama’s former interpreter, who visited US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his tour to India. As part of a civil society delegation, Geshe Dorji Damdul met Antony Blinken in New Delhi. After…

  • China is furious when Blinken meets with Dalai Lama’s representatives.

    China is furious when Blinken meets with Dalai Lama’s representatives.

    China expressed its displeasure of the meeting between the US Secretary of State and a senior representative of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, which took place in Delhi on Thursday, July 29. China claimed that the meeting breached the US promise to consider Tibet as part of China.

  • Chinese customs officials seize maps depicting Arunachal as a part of India.

    Chinese customs officials seize maps depicting Arunachal as a part of India.

    Customs officers in China have seized a big shipment of world maps destined for sale because they show Arunachal Pradesh as part of India, according to Chinese state media. China claims Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India as part of South Tibet, which India strongly denies. Arunachal Pradesh, India claims, is an integral and inalienable part…

  • Chinese authorities attempted to “bully the scientific community” by seeking to censor Dalai Lama.

    Chinese authorities attempted to “bully the scientific community” by seeking to censor Dalai Lama.

    More than a hundred Nobel laureates have expressed their displeasure with the Chinese government’s attempt to “bully the scientific community” earlier this year by attempting to censor two Nobel laureates during the Nobel Prize Summit, hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Nobel Foundation in April.

  • Nepal’s Wary Approach to the Tibetan Issue

    Nepal’s Wary Approach to the Tibetan Issue

    President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tibet, the first by a Chinese leader in the region in 30 years, sent a powerful message to China’s southern neighbors last Friday. Tens of thousands of Tibetan refugees live in Nepal, which, like India, shares a border with Tibet. Around 20,000 Tibetan refugees live in Nepal. In the Sino-Nepal…

  • US Secretary of State meets Dalai Lama’s representative, risking China’s wrath.

    US Secretary of State meets Dalai Lama’s representative, risking China’s wrath.

    According to a State Department official, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet’s spiritual leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on Wednesday, creating history and a move that is likely to enrage China. According to the spokeswoman, Mr. Blinken met briefly with Ngodup Dongchung, a representative…

  • Panchen Lama has warned Tibetan Buddhists to keep away from separatist forces.

    Panchen Lama has warned Tibetan Buddhists to keep away from separatist forces.

    Beijing-appointed Buddhist leader have instructed Tibetan Buddhists to stay away from separatist tendencies and to adapt their faith to socialism and Chinese conditions, according to state-run media. Gyaincain Norbu, the Panchen Lama selected by Beijing, offered the remarks on a tour of Tibetan communities in Sichuan and Gansu provinces earlier this month, according to the…