Dalai Lama not to attend science congress
March 12, 2018  23:34
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Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will not attend the Indian Science Congress which opens in Manipur later this week, a conference organiser said today.
The Nobel Laureate's decision not to attend the congress assumes significance in view of the cancellation of a recent event here where the Dalai Lama was expected to be present.
The event, which was slated to have been held at Rajghat to commemorate the Buddhist monk's 60th year in exile in India, was later moved to Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, and will now be held at the end of the month.
The Indian Science Congress is an annual science event inaugurated by the prime minister.
The general president of the Indian Science Congress Association, Achyuta Samanta, said the Tibetan leader had been invited to the conference, but said he would not be able to attend it.
 
"We were also told that he had visited Manipur two months ago," Samanta said.

-- PTI

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