Dharamshala: Kashag Secretariat (Cabinet Secretariat of Tibetan Government in exile) yesterday urged Tibetan officials in the Government in Exile not to take part in the coming Losar （New Year）celebrations.

Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama today opened the Fifth Tibetan General Conference on Education, which is organized by the Department Of Education, based in Dharamsala. The 3-day conference will discuss Tibetan education, specifically the basic education system. There are 241 attendees, including teachers and principals from 85 Tibetan schools in India, Nepal and Bhutan.

To date with South Africa following teams have been qualified for the FIFA Finals 2010.

MANCHESTER: Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney ensured Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United returned to winning ways in a routine 2-0 victory over Blackburn Rovers at Old Trafford here on Saturday.

England reject Ravi Bopara has been picked up by Auckland for the domestic cricket season. Unlike most overseas professionals signed by other teams, Bopara will play all three forms of the game for his new province.

Andy Murray yesterday admitted his surprise at the recent revelations that the former world No1 Andre Agassi had failed a drugs test in 1997 and then lied about the reasons to avoid a ban. As a child, the Scot idolised the American for his swashbuckling, non-conformist style, so it must have come as an even greater shock to him to learn his hero had taken crystal meth.