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Topic: Tibet

Do business with China, but be careful — Tibetan President Lobsang Sangay advises India

Lobsang Sangay, President of the Tibetan government-in exile, says we are never against doing business with China or against having diplomatic relationship with it.

China is using hi-tech balloons to spy on India from Tibet

China began to show interest in aerostats in the 1990s, but it was only in 2010-11 that it received three large-sized tethered aerostat systems from a Russian company.

Himalayan fossil of adolescent’s jaw may explain how Tibetans, Sherpas master mountains

The new finding is the first Denisovan specimen found outside of the Denisova cave in Siberia and is dated at 1.6 lakh years old.

China is reinforcing underground military facilities near Tibet-Arunachal border

The underground facilities near Lhoka town include a possible ammunition storage facility and the headquarters of the PLA’s Tibet Military District.

India’s China policy is adrift, but Tibet & Dalai Lama can change that

The more India has aligned its Tibet stance with China’s position, the more Beijing has upped the ante, including claiming Arunachal as 'South Tibet'.

China’s new goal in Tibet seems to be to select the next Dalai Lama

China is constructing infrastructure near sacred sites and restricting Tibetan pilgrims’ travel, giving rise to fears that it’ll handpick the next Dalai Lama.

China claims it has no ‘Gulags’, but satellite imagery shows 3 new ones coming up in Tibet

ThePrint has identified at least three re-education centres - or 'Gulags', as the Soviet-era equivalents were called - under construction in Tibet.

Satellite images show China is building underground facility 50 km from India border

The new facility near Ngari is the Chinese PLA’s second in Tibet, and stands just about 60 km away from the Indian Army’s forward posts at Demchok in Ladakh.

Beijing equips troops in Tibet with vehicle-mounted howitzers: state-run China daily

Indian experts say development not alarming, but long-term implications need to be kept in mind given China is beefing up security in the region.

China is making a Beijing-Tibet expressway and it has military implications for India

China is quickly building G-6 expressway from Xining to Lhasa, to connect Tibet’s capital to Beijing. This could have military implications for India.

On Camera

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.