(TibetanReview.net, Nov26’20) – Active Covid-19 cases in India rose for the second straight day on Nov 25 – signaling a post-Diwali spurt in the pandemic with fresh infections outnumbering the recoveries — even as the most recently worst-hit Delhi showed some improvement in the situation by slipping to the third […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov25’20) – Active Covid-19 cases in India has increased for the third time in the past four days, with fresh infections on Nov 24 outnumbering recoveries by more than 5,500, reported the timesofindia.com Nov 25, citing figures it had compiled from state government reports. The report said this was […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov17’20) – The number of Tibetans who have registered to vote for the 2021 parliament in exile and Sikyong elections has fallen well short of that recorded for the elections in 2016. As a result the Tibetan election commission has decided Nov 16 to reopen the registration process for […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct30’20) – Being religious is “a bad old habit” and Tibetan who benefit from atheist communist party state of China’s anti-poverty relief should not be two-faced by continuing their religious practices, Reuters Oct 30 cited local officials as telling a group of reporters taken on a government-organised tour of […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct24’20) – The number of active Covid-19 cases in India continued to fall and remained below 700,000 for the second day while the total of recoveries have exceeded 7 million in a continued rising trend, reported the timesofindia.com Oct 24, citing the country’s health ministry Oct 24. However, the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct16’20) – The executive head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamsala, Sikyong Lobsang Sangay, has on Oct 15 met with Mr Robert Destro, whose appointment as the Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues was announced by the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just the day before. Detro, a […]

Kunsang Tanzin* contends that a constitutional crisis has arisen from the refusal of the Standing Committee of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile to submit to the jurisdiction of the Tibetan judiciary on the latter’s apex body’s recent decision to rule its postponement of the Sep 2020 session of the parliament […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep27’20) – Fifty per cent of exile Tibetans now lives outside South Asia, marking a dramatic change in the spread of the Tibetan diaspora which has taken place over the past two decades. “The Tibetan population is now, divided 50-50 between those within India, Nepal and Bhutan and those […]

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’20) – Thousands of Tibetan farmers and nomads are being forced out by the Chinese government from their ancestral land in Themchen (Chinese: Tianjin) County of Tsonub (Haixi) Prefecture, Qinghai Province, under a plan to turn their hometown area into a 50,200 square kilometre Mount Qilian National Park. The […]

(TibetanReview.net, Aug12’20) – China says it is stepping up efforts to relocate Tibetans to the border with India and Bhutan and developing infrastructure there to boost both national security and quality of life, reported China’s party mouthpiece globaltimes.cn Aug 11, citing residents and officials. It has called the resettlement voluntary, […]