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tibet autonomous region news

View from the Himalayas: For Indian pilgrims, a sneak peak of Kailash from Nepal

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The Kailash-Manasarovar was never out of bounds for Indian pilgrims from Nepal. (HT File Photo)
Updated on Aug 14, 2025 01:33 pm IST

Between renewal & rebirth: The Dalai Lama succession

The stage is set for a metaphysical standoff: One Dalai Lama born of visions, dreams, and ritual recognition; another produced by committee, installed by fiat. (AFP)
Published on Jul 05, 2025 06:55 pm IST

China travel: Mt Everest scenic area shut after 6.8-magnitude quake hits Tibet

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, people stand amidst damaged houses in the aftermath of an earthquake in Tonglai Village, Changsuo Township of Dingri in Xigaze, southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.
Updated on Jan 07, 2025 04:13 pm IST

China using ‘extreme pressure’ to relocate Tibetans: HRW Report

Chinese authorities have been accused by rights groups and the Central Tibetan Administration, or the government in exile based in Dharamsala, of a range of repressive measures (AP)
Updated on May 22, 2024 04:55 am IST

China using ‘extreme pressure’ to force rural Tibetans to relocate: HRW report

Soldiers dressed as ushers stand watch against a door during a deliberation on the government work report by Tibet delegations, on the sideline of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 6. (AP)
Published on May 21, 2024 09:40 pm IST

China says Amit Shah’s visit to Arunachal violates its territorial sovereignty

A general overview of Tawang town in northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. (AFP)
Updated on Apr 10, 2023 06:12 pm IST

China renames 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh

Indian and Chinese troops clashed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh.
Updated on Apr 04, 2023 06:05 am IST

Tibetan bikers travel from Karnataka to Dharamshala to promote Free Tibet cause

One of the bikers, Tsering Dhondup speaking to news agency ANI. 
Published on Aug 11, 2022 10:52 am IST

Satellite imagery shows China setting up border villages between India, Bhutan

File photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Updated on Dec 06, 2020 10:52 pm IST

5 Indians who strayed across LAC were spies, says Chinese media ahead of their release

The five young men accompanied by army personnel from India and China (at extreme right and left) at Kibithu on Saturday.
Updated on Sept 12, 2020 05:02 pm IST

‘Incident happened’: Arunachal Pradesh police on abduction of 5 men in region

The matter about the missing men came to light after a brother of one of the 5 men wrote about it on social media.
Updated on Sept 07, 2020 08:02 pm IST

China deployed martial art trainers along Tibet during border tension with India: Reports

Tourists wearing face masks to protect against the new coronavirus walk along a plaza in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Published on Jun 28, 2020 09:20 pm IST

China could set up border outposts in encroached territories: Nepal govt document

KP Sharma Oli government’s agriculture department has expressed concern that the country could lose hundreds of hectares land to China due to rivers changing the course of rivers
Updated on Jun 23, 2020 12:46 pm IST

Tibetan graduates need to ‘expose and criticise Dalai Lama’ for Chinese government jobs

File photo of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at an event in Mcleodganj, Himachal Pradesh.
Updated on Oct 19, 2019 04:40 pm IST

China eyes possibility of upgrading airport in TAR

The upgradation of the airport in the Tibet Autonomous Region will cut travel time for pilgrims visiting Kailash Mansarovar.
Updated on Apr 02, 2019 11:02 pm IST

China praises Communist party-led progress in Tibet

China praises Communist party-led progress in Tibet (Photo by Parwaz Khan / Hindustan Times)
Published on Mar 28, 2019 02:15 am IST

China praises Communist party-led progress in Tibet

China on Wednesday praised the Communist Party-led “leap of development” in the Himalayan region of Tibet in the 60 years since an uprising against Beijing’s rule was put down in 1959.
Published on Mar 28, 2019 12:14 am IST

Let border locals trade more with India, proposes Chinese legislator

A file photo of Xinhua News Agency, shows Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj at a meeting in Wuzhen Town, east China's Zhejiang Province.
Updated on Mar 15, 2019 07:38 pm IST

China bans foreign tourists from visiting Tibet until April

Access to the Himalayan region – one of the biggest provinces of China – is almost always restricted with special permits required to visit.
Updated on Feb 20, 2019 04:52 pm IST

Domestic tourism booms in Tibet but restrictions on foreign tourists remain

Tourists visit the Jokhang Monastery, one of the oldest Tibetan monasteries in Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Updated on Sept 18, 2018 10:35 am IST

China building cutting-edge rockets for high altitude locations, could be deployed on India border

Chinese army officers on the Chinese side of the international border at Nathula Pass in Sikkim.China and India were locked in a 73-day standoff on the Doklam (Donglang in Chinese) plateau near the Sikkim border last year.
Updated on Aug 04, 2018 08:50 am IST

To curb separatist ideas, Chinese county bans India-trained Tibetan monks from teaching Buddhism

Although Beijing considers the Dalai Lama a secessionist engaged in anti-China activities to secure Tibetan independence, the spiritual leader says he only seeks autonomy for the province.
Updated on May 16, 2018 04:49 pm IST