Sonada, 21 February 2021: In a first time effort in the hills, academia-industry partnership initiative to empower tea garden women was launched on 21 February 2021. Salesian College Sonada established in 1938 and the Tea Promoters India who own plantations in Darjeeling, Dooars, Assam and Kerala have launched a pilot project entitled: Women Empowerment in Tea Communities Workshop, to be spread out on five Sundays from 21 February to 21 March 2021.. Read More »

Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Kerketta, Bishop of Jashpur Dioecese, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 218 boys and girls of Mary Help of Christians Church at Jumaikela on Sunday, 24th February, 2021. . Read More »

Ooodlbari, 26 December 2020: Deacon Deonis Minj became the fourth priest to be ordained in the Blessed Michael Rua tea garden parish of Oodlabari, in Jalpaiguri diocese, on 27 December 2020.. Read More »

Darjeeling, 14 December 2020 - In a Carol singing competition into its fifth year, organized by a community radio in the hills, youth groups have touched all high notes with winter hues, trying to outperform one another in composition of original carols and in vibrant video production.. Read More »

Darjeeling, 12 November 2020: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has lauded a Salesian priest's book on the history of the Catholic Church in Tibet. ''His Holiness was very interested to know the history of the missionaries to Tibet and the hazardous journeys and experiences they endured crossing the difficult terrains of Tibet,'' says an email letter from the Dalai Lama's secretary Chhime R. Chhoekyapa to Father Tomy Augustine, rector of Salesian College in Sonada, West Bengal.. Read More »

Shillong: On the 25th October 2020, Father Paul Olphindro Lyngkot, Salesian Provincial of Shillong released a book Ka Jingim jong u Blessed Carlo Acutis jong ka Milan on the life of Blessed Carlo Acutis. It was translated to Khasi from an Italian book Carlo Acutis:15 anni di amicizia con Dio which was authored by Umberto De Vanna. It was released at the premises of Mawlai Parish. . Read More »

Darjeeling, 18 October 2020: Radio Salesian 90.8 FM will start broadcasting one hour radio program in Lepcha language from Saturday 24 October 2020. The program is prepared by three Lepcha radio journalists who have just undergone one month of intense training with Radio Salesian.. Read More »

Evangelization and Catechesis, a symposium compendium on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of the Salesian Province of Guwahati [1959-2019] and the initiation of the triennial preparation for the Centennial of Salesian Presence in North-East India [1922-2022] was released on 14 September 2020 by Guwahati Salesian Provincial Father Januarius S. Sangma. The compendium is edited by South Asia Regional Councillor Father Biju Michael and FMA [Daughters of Mary Help of Christians] Guwahati Vice-Provincial Sr. Lydia Komuhra.. Read More »

The online meeting of the Don Bosco South Asia Province Coordinators of the 'Education to the Faith' Dimension was organized by Father Gilbert Choondal, South Asia Education to the Faith Dimension Coordinator on 31 August 2020.. Read More »

Vice Provincial of Shillong Salesian Province [INS],Father (Dr) John Zosiama's new book ''The Harlotry of Babylon: An Exegetico-Theological Study of Revelation 17 with Special Reference to the use of Porneia in the Book of Revelation,'' a modified version of his doctoral thesis at the Angelicum-University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome was released by Shillong Salesian Provincial Father Paul Olphindro Lyngkot, on 20 Aug 2020, at Don Bosco Provincial House, Shillong.. Read More »