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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicDalai Lama

Topic: Dalai Lama

Tibet back as fulcrum of new Cold War as US-China tension grows

India has tried to play the Tibet card, but New Delhi lacks the heft to make effective use of it. The US is a different ball game, and both Chinese and Tibetans know this.

Trump signs bill on Tibet to block China’s interference in Dalai Lama’s succession

The bill also places restrictions on new Chinese consulates in the US until a consulate has been established in Lhasa and re-authorises various provisions.

How US bill on Tibet can check Chinese excesses, but why India’s hands are still tied

If India takes any stand on Chinese interests whether in Tibet or South China Sea, it would bear the brunt of Chinese retaliation.

China to impose visa bans against US officials behind new Tibet policy act

The legislation directs the US government to issue economic and visa sanctions against any Chinese official who interferes with Dalai Lama's succession.

Dalai Lama tweets about farmers amid protests in Delhi, deletes post an hour later

In the deleted tweet, the Dalai Lama had said a farmer takes care of his land not out of some sentimental affection for the soil, but because his livelihood depends on it.

India waving SFF and Tibet cards won’t scare China. Can’t pull levers you don’t have

Bending foreign policy to serve domestic politics is proving to be costly for India. Hyping the use of the Tibetan-majority SFF against China is one such example.

China’s military adventurism is meant to distract from origins of Covid: Tibetan President

Lobsang Sangay, President of the Tibetan government-in-exile, says China is doing to India and its other neighbours what it did to his country in the 1950s.

Stobdan sorry for remarks on Dalai Lama but says spiritual leader also a ‘geopolitical entity’

Former diplomat Phunchok Stobdan says his comments that irked Ladakh monasteries were purely made from geopolitical standpoint and 'entirely in national interest'.

Former diplomat Stobdan’s comments on Dalai Lama spark row, Leh markets shut on Monday

Two key Ladakh monasteries have demanded an apology from Phunchok Stobdan, who questioned the Dalai Lama’s silence on border tensions and even asked if he was collaborating with China.

When Dalai Lama was talking about asylum in India, Nehru almost fell asleep

In The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life, Alexander Norman writes about the time the Dalai Lama came to India to discuss asylum, but Nehru had already made up his mind.

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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.