Hongya, China - "Get out of here! They will arrest anyone who looks in there," cried a middle-aged woman standing near the closed red doors of a small temple in China's north-western province of Qinghai.

The nervous taxi driver jumped into his car and started rolling downhill with the doors still open and his two passengers stranded.

Dharamsala - Amid growing anger among Tibetan exiles at China's subjugation of Tibet and its monasteries, bitter memories of a failed armed struggle haunt former guerrilla fighter Lhasang Tsering.

Over five decades, the Tibetan movement has drawn international attention and support for being among the world's rare non-violent struggles, which has been credited to the Dalai Lama's "middle way" approach, which stresses conciliatory negotiations with China.

Although the policy has made little headway with Beijing, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in
1989 for leading Tibet's non-violent struggle.

Dharamsala, India - Tibet faces a new wave of violence, warned Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, who worried that Tibetans might be targeted by Chinese forces as the Asian giant seeks to deflect attention from the economic hardships the global economic turmoil is bringing upon its people.

Although the Tibetan government adheres to its "middle way" approach, which renounces independence in favour of greater autonomy within China, Rinpoche, also known as the "Precious One," admitted that the policy was unlikely to succeed with the Chinese leadership.

Bhubaneswar, Mar 8 : Biju Janata Dal chief and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday claimed support of 76 MLAs.

Orissa Governor M. C. Bhandare has asked Patnaik to seek a vote of confidence in a special assembly session on March 11.

"There will be a vote of confidence in the state assembly on March 11 during a special session," Patnaik told reporters here.

According to the party sources, 59 BJD MLA accompanied the Chief Minister to the Rajbhavan.

New Delhi, Mar 8 : The Samajwadi Party on Sunday declared 10 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh taking the number of its nominees to
74.

The SP has left six constituencies, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Ghaziabad, Dharora, Mathura and Kanpur for the Congress.

The Samajwadi Party earlier announced candidates for 65 constituencies, saying his party was ready to reconsider its list of already announced candidates for 65 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh if Congress comes down from its demand.

Bhubaneswar, Mar 8 : A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) withdrew its support, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is working to garner support of fringe parties and independent candidates to save its government.

The BJD has 61 MLA in the 147 members Orissa Assembly.

It now requires 13 more MLA to achieve the magic figure of 74 to remain in power.

The party was close to muster the support of 14 more MLAs from JMM, CPI and CPI-M.

The BJP, which had 32 members in the assembly, suffered a setback as two of its MLAs resigned from the party last week.