(TibetanReview.net, May15’20) – The number of people infected by the Covid-19 pandemic in India had increased more than three times in less than 20 days with the country continuing to report nearly 4,000 new cases each day, reported indianexpress.com May 15. In the worst hit state of Maharashtra, Mumbai city […]

(TibetanReview.net, May13’20) – A coalition of human-rights groups led by Amnesty International Canada has on May 12 accused Chinese government officials and supporters of the Communist Party of China of increasingly resorting to “threats, bullying and harassment” to intimidate and silence activists in Canada, including those raising concerns about democracy […]

(TibetanReview.net, May13’20) – “The novel coronavirus is going to be with us for long time, but we can’t let our lives revolve around it,” said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi May 12 while announcing that the fourth phase of a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, beginning May 18, will be in a […]

(TibetanReview.net, May12’20) – With support from 16 other leaders and nearly 100 more fellow-citizens, Dr Andrius Navickas, Member of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania, has asked his country’s President Gitanas Nausėda and Foreign affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius to press the Chinese government to provide reliable information on […]

(TibetanReview.net, May12’20) – Chinese authorities had taken away on May 10 night a constitutional scholar after he wrote an open letter to representatives of the country’s legislature, criticising the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and calling for freedom of speech and a modern democratic constitution, reported the scmp.com May […]

(TibetanReview.net, May12’20) – India appears to be headed for a fourth Covid-19 lockdown after a six-hour meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state chief ministers on Apr 11 afternoon. “I am of the firm view that the measures needed in the first phase of lockdown were not needed during […]

(TibetanReview.net, May11’20) – Apart from north Sikkim there had been an earlier brawl between Chinese and Indian border troops in eastern Ladakh, also resulting in minor injuries on both the sides, according to subsequent Indian media reports. Both the incidents took place along un-demarcated and disputed frontier between the two […]

(TibetanReview.net, May11’20) – A high-profile central environmental protection inspection team has found local governments and departments in Qinghai province to have not only failed to enforce China’s environmental protection laws but to have also been guilty of violations themselves, according to China’s official chinadaily.com.cn May 11. Some local governments and […]

(TibetanReview.net, May11’20) – After three days of falling new Covid-19 cases, India reported its highest ever single-day increase on Apr 10 even as the government remained inclined to open the country’s economy and further relax lockdown restrictions after May 17. The government had projected 65,000 cases by May 15; but […]

(TibetanReview.net, May10’20) – China’s ongoing move to conduct a survey of Mt Everest for the eighth time since 1975, and the first since 2005, including for the purpose of re-measuring its height, amid a flurry of publicity has invited derision from people in India and Nepal who see geopolitical mischiefs […]