Tag Archives: Society

• Another police killing of a black man stokes US tension, debate 14 June 2020 | Jim Mannion This post has one comment

  The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer, this time in Atlanta, Georgia, poured more fuel Sunday on a raging US debate over racism after another round of street protests and the resignation of the city's police chief. ...

• Coronavirus cases in India pass one lakh, over 3,000 dead 18 May 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has no comments yet

  India coronavirus cases surpassed one lakh (100,000) on Monday, and over 3,000 people have died, despite the world's biggest lockdown for its 1.3 billion people imposed since 25 March by Prime Minister Modi. ...

• Obituary: Pioneer of orphanages in Tibet dies from COVID-19 in Switzerland 10 May 2020 | Morris Tennyson This post has no comments yet

  Tendol Gyalzur, orphaned when fleeing with her family after the 1959 uprising in Tibet, who later went back to Tibet to establish the first orphanages for abandoned children, has died this week of COVID-19 in Switzerland. ...

• Indians light lamps to heed Modi’s call for coronavirus comradeship 5 April 2020 | Rajendra Jadhav and Ruma Paul This post has 2 comments

  Millions of Indians turned off their lights and lit up balconies and doorsteps with lamps, candles and flashlights on Sunday, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to “challenge the darkness” spread by the coronavir ...

• India hangs four men convicted of 2012 gang-rape in Delhi 20 March 2020 This post has no comments yet

  India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. ...

• Coronavirus concern comes to Himalayas; Tibetans take action 6 March 2020 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 5 comments

  As concern over the new coronavirus reaches the Himalayas, including the village of McLeod Ganj, the capital of the Tibetan diaspora, the exile Tibetan community is taking precautionary measures. ...

• Police arrest over 500 for Delhi sectarian violence 28 February 2020 | Aftab Ahmed This post has 2 comments

  Police have arrested 514 people for deadly Hindu-Muslim violence that broke out in the capital, the government said, as it faced mounting international criticism for failing to protect minority Muslims. ...

• Death toll rises to 32 in religious violence in New Delhi 27 February 2020 This post has no comments yet

  At least 32 people have been killed in the deadliest violence to engulf India’s capital New Delhi in decades as a heavy deployment of security forces brought an uneasy calm on Thursday, a police official said. ...

• Seven killed, 150 injured as riots in New Delhi overshadow Trump visit 25 February 2020 | Devjyot Ghoshal and Manoj Kumar This post has 2 comments

  At least seven people have been killed and around 150 injured in clashes between opposing groups in Delhi, a police official told Reuters, as riots in parts of the city overshadowed US President Donald Trump’s first visit to India ...

• China virus deaths rise past 800, overtaking SARS toll 9 February 2020 | Patrick Baert and Helen Roxburgh This post has 2 comments

  The death toll from the novel coronavirus surged past 800 in mainland China on Sunday, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be stabilising. ...