Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tessa Wong - BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter December 23, 2024 at 6:17 AM Beijing's plan to build another dam on the Jinsha river, which runs through Tibetan territories, led to protests [Getty ...
India's Tibetan refugees demand discussion on Tibet during G20 summit. September 8, 2023 at 6:01 AM ... President of the Tibetan Youth Congress, which organised the demonstration, told Indian news ...
Project on Yarlung Zangbo river could generate three times as much electricity as Three Gorges mega dam
Scholars like Buton Rinchen Drub (Bu-ston) have suggested that Tibetans are descendants of Rupati, a Kaurava military general from the historical Kurukshetra War. [3] Other scholars point to the spread of Buddhism to Tibet from India through the efforts of Tibetan kings, Songtsen Gampo and Trisong-Detsen as the first significant contact. [4]
Hundreds of Tibetan exiles in India marched from the town of Dharamsala to the Indo-Chinese border, to mark their protest against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Indian authorities arrested more than 100 Tibetan protesters. [76] Indian police also arrested a dozen Tibetan exiles attempting to storm the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. [77]
On 7 March 1950, a Tibetan delegation arrived in Kalimpong, India, to open a dialogue with the newly declared People's Republic of China and to secure assurances that the Chinese would respect Tibetan territorial integrity, among other things. The onset of talks was delayed by debate between the Tibetan, Indian, British, and Chinese delegations ...
The magnitude 7.1 quake, which struck at a depth of 10 km (six miles), according to data from the US Geological Survey, was also felt in Nepal and parts of India, which neighbour Tibet.
On 5 May, the first standoff began as a clash between Indian [g] and Chinese soldiers at a beach of Pangong Tso, a lake shared between India and Tibet, China, with the Line of Actual Control (LAC) passing through it. [124] [125] A video showed soldiers from both nations engaging in fistfights and stone-pelting along the LAC. [126]