Aimed at providing all weather connectivity to areas along China and Pakistan border project Deepak – wing of Border Road Organization (BRO) has cleared way for constructing another tunnel beneath Shinkula pass, while work progresses speedily on Rs1500 crore strategic Rohtang tunnel.
With air cmde Dr Uma Raju getting approved for the next rank, the country is all set to have second ever woman to hold the rank of air vice marshal. The first ever woman to hold this rank was air vice marshal P Bandhopadhyaya in 2002.
India’s first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) specialising in infrastructure development in Himalayan region has got the environment ministry’s approval.
It was supposed to be one of several outstation trips that Sunil Sharma, a senior manager at a private firm in southeast Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar, had planned for his family of four, this summer.
A total of 418 delegates from over 20 countries including India, Nepal, US, Europe and Russia are participating in the second Tibetan national general meeting that started in the premises of Tibetan Children's Village School in upper Dharamsala today.
Tourist destinations of the state including capital town Shimla are witnessing the heavy tourist inflow as the regular thundershowers are keeping temperatures in control.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday once again refused to budge from his stand of seeking retirement from political role as head of the exiled Tibetans.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has formally relinquished his political and administrative role by signing amendments to the Constitution of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
The chief election commissioner of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)-in-exile has declared Penpa Tsering as the speaker and Khenpo Sonam Tenphel as the deputy speaker of the 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-exile.
Thousands of Tibetans across the world today voted to elect the Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, an exercise that may usher in a transition in the community's leadership following the Dalai Lama's "flat refusal" to reconsider his decision to retire as its political head.
The Tibetan parliament-in-exile based in Himachal Pradesh has overwhelmingly favoured the continuation of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as political head. Meanwhile, the Tibetan cabinet acceded to the Dalai Lama's decision to retire.
The Assembly of Tibetan Peoples Deputies, also known as Tibetan Parliament in exile, on Friday passed a voice resolution requesting the Dalai Lama to reconsider his decision to relinquish his powers. Gaurav Bisht reports.
Though last week's decision by the Dalai Lama seeking to shed political authority has left them in a state of flux, young Tibetans living in exile in India are pinning their hopes on their western-educated leaders, one of whom would lead them in the coming years.
A day before an election to the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile (Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies), the Dalai Lama -- Tenzin Gyatso - today reaffirmed his decision to relinquish his political authority and said that he was even deliberating to end the 400- year-old institution of the spiritual leader.
The Tibetan parliament-in-exile today began debating the Dalai Lama's request to resign as political leader in what promised to be a highly emotional session.