Polar ice caps, the ozone layer, the great garbage patch, greenhouse effects, and carbon footprints are some of the issues keeping world leaders at the United Nations in a huddle in their bid to protect the planet from an environmental catastrophe. At a more macro level, efforts are underway to spark a green revolution. In the forefront of this green movement in India are the Salesians of Don Bosco. On September 15, marked as the World Clean Up Day, citizens from around the world and India, in particular, joined forces to combat the problem of solid waste which included marine debris, mismanaged solid waste such as litter and illegal dumpsites, along with it's associated environmental and social problems. . Read More »

Don Bosco District Association organized a training programme for the Scouts, Guides and Cubs from 20 to 26 September 2018 at Don Bosco Youth Village, Keeranur, Tiruchy Province. This was a joint venture of SDB and FMA of the Salesian Province of Tiruchy. . Read More »

New Delhi- The Catholic Church in India is reviewing and updating its ''Teaching Policy'', elaborated in its guidelines in 2007, in order to offer an increasingly better qualified service and an ever-increasing commitment in the field of education in the country, considered a precious instrument of evangelization: this is what Salesian Father Joseph Manipadam, National Secretary of the Office for Education and Culture, within the Indian Bishops Conference (CBCI) says in an interview with Agenzia Fides. . Read More »

The Salesian Co-operators Congress was held on 23rd and 24th September 2018 at Don Bosco Thanjavur in the Salesian Province of Tiruchy, where the Salesians started their first Co-operators unit in India. 'Autonomy in Communion for the Mission' was the theme for the Congress. . Read More »

: Don Bosco Media Network (DBMN) conducted a training programme for 14 Bosco Information Service (BIS) correspondents to write for the province's newsletter and for the updating of the Province website. The course was conducted at the Don Bosco Provincial House, Mathias Institute Mawlai, Shillong. The training provides critical training in new media, citizen journalism and empowerment to bring positive changes around the Salesian Institutions. This is part of the ongoing Silver Jubilee year celebrations of BOSCOM, South Asia.. Read More »

Krishnagar: A seminar on venerable Francis Convertini was organized by the diocese of Krishnagar in collaboration with the Salesians of Don Bosco on September 20, 2018 at Sanjivani, the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Krishnagar, a suburban township 100 km north of Kolkata. Joseph Suren Gomes, Bishop of Krishnagar and Father Pier Luigi Cameroni, Postulator General of the Salesians of Don Bosco were the esteemed speakers.. Read More »

Don Bosco Technical School Nongstoin was inaugurated on Friday 21st September 2018 by Shri Umesh Muktieh, Director of Industries Government of Meghalaya, in the presence of Bishop Victor Lyngdoh of Jowai Diocese, Father Paul O Lyngkot Provincial of Shillong Province, Father George Maliekal, Former Provincial, Father Wilbert Thyrniang, the Vicar General of Nongstoin Diocese, priests and religious and thousands of young people from Pyndenglawar Nongstoin. . Read More »

Sao Paolo, Brazil: The select group of members from the Education Group of Salesian University Institutions gathered at Pio XI Campus of Salesian University of Sao Paolo, from 17-19 September 2018 for an intercontinental seminar and the Vth Assembly of the Delegates of the Group. . Read More »

Don Bosco Youth Centre newly designed website was launched by Father Paul O Lyngkot sdb, the Salesian Provincial of Shillong Province. . Read More »

One hundred and eighty-five students and eleven teachers from Don Bosco Junior and Senior College, Yerwada, Pune collected over five tonnes of river waste during a Clean Up Drive at the banks of the Mula Mutta river in Pune on September 15. . Read More »