A school teacher’s alleged act of encouraging her students to take turns to repeatedly slap a Muslim boy in India’s most populous state has triggered shock and anger.
He observed that if we were all to cultivate a stronger sense of the oneness of humanity, we would be better able to work together out of love and compassion.
Parliament strongly urges the Indian authorities to put in place all necessary measures to promptly halt the ethnic and religious violence and to protect all religious minorities.
The Dalai Lama celebrated his 88th birthday on Thursday, as hundreds of his supporters and exiled Tibetans thronged his hillside Indian headquarters in Dharamsala.