CIA radios and yak butter, and hours to spare: How a 23-year-old monk outwitted the Dragon empireIn 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama, disguised as a soldier, slipped out of Lhasa under the nose of the Chinese army. An ominous invitation to wat...
06 Jul, 2025, 02.44 PM IST
Cutting pollution to Covid pandemic level may prevent Himalayan glaciers from disappearing: StudyReducing air pollution to levels seen during the COVID-19 lockdown could safeguard Himalayan glaciers from vanishing by the century's end, ...
21 Dec, 2023, 12.57 PM IST
Russia, facing lags, turns to China to produce Sputnik shotsRussia has announced three deals totaling 260 million doses with Chinese vaccine companies in recent weeks. It's a decision that could mean...
03 May, 2021, 11.26 AM IST
10 years later, RSS leader Nanaji’s journal, Manthan, revivedThe first issue is expected next month and will focus on the literary works and thoughts of RSS leader Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
25 Oct, 2017, 10.00 AM IST
- Genes that helps Tibetans survive at high altitudes
New York, April 28 (IANS) Variants of five different genes -- including one originating in the extinct human subspecies Denisovans -- help ...
28 Apr, 2017, 04.10 PM IST
- Humans settled in Tibet at least 7,400 years ago: Study
Washington, Jan 6 (IANS) Humans likely established permanent settlements on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau at least 7,400 years ago, muc...
06 Jan, 2017, 02.37 PM IST
Climate change likely caused deadly avalanche in Tibet10 Dec, 2016, 06.36 PM IST
- Climate change likely triggered deadly 2016 avalanche in Tibet
New York, Dec 10 (IANS) Climate change is to blame for a deadly glacier collapse this year in the once stable region of the Tibetan Plateau...
10 Dec, 2016, 04.52 PM IST
Goof up in Congress journal: Handiwork of insiders suspectedNirupam has already sacked the publication's editorial content coordinator Sudhir Joshi, a freelance journalist.
29 Dec, 2015, 05.01 PM IST
Congress journal lauds Vallabhbhai Patel, blames Jawaharlal Nehru for Kashmir and Tibet issuesThe article states that Nehru should have listened to freedom fighter and former home minister, Sardar Patel's views on international affai...
28 Dec, 2015, 11.13 PM IST
Congress distances itself from its "defunct" mouthpieceCongress distanced itself from its "defunct" mouthpiece in Mumbai as some articles in it criticised Nehru's Kashmir policy and alleged that...
28 Dec, 2015, 08.56 PM IST
BJP gloats over articles slamming Jawaharlal Nehru, Sonia GandhiThe BJP today gloated over Congress's embarrassment following publication of articles critical of Nehru and Sonia in its mouthpiece.
28 Dec, 2015, 07.24 PM IST
Mumbai Congress leaders slam Nirupam over party mouthpiece gaffeLeft red-faced by the articles in Congress mouthpiece targeting Jawaharlal Nehru and Sonia Gandhi, a section of Mumbai unit of Congress tod...
28 Dec, 2015, 04.07 PM IST
- US concerned over reports of self-immolation bids in Tibet
The US has voiced concern over reports of new wave of self-immolations in Tibet by Buddhist monks, noting that these events reflect the dee...
10 Jan, 2012, 10.26 AM IST
- Carrefour boss denies supporting Dalai Lama
The boss of French supermarket chain Carrefour has denied that his company supported the Tibetan spiritual leader.
20 Apr, 2008, 05.11 PM IST
- Carrefour takes China anti-French demos 'very seriously': Chief
A French supermarket chief said Saturday he was taking "very seriously" anti-French protests and boycott calls in China over his country's ...
20 Apr, 2008, 04.54 AM IST
- Conference ponders Beijing Olympics challenge for journalists
Reprimands or perhaps even expulsion for writing about topics sensitive for the Chinese Communist Party. Big Brother propaganda apparatchik...
19 Apr, 2008, 05.56 AM IST