Matters India reporter Darjeeling, May 18, 2019: The management of the Salesian College Sonada in Darjeeling has slashed admission fees by 50 percent in an effort to attract students of academic merit and lighten parents’ financial burden. “It is our continued effort to make higher education affordable for students whoseContinue Reading
By Iqra Ahmed Darjeeling, Feb. 14, 2019: Salesian College Sonada celebrated its second World Radio Day (WRD) on February 13. The program was organized by Radio Salesian 90.8 FM with WRD 2019 theme: Dialogue, tolerance and peace. The WRD UNESCO event launched in 2011 marks a time when people aroundContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Darjeeling, Nov. 15, 2018: A hill college in Darjeeling has started the translation of short stories written by Indra Bahadur Rai, father of Indian Nepali language who died in March. The 3-day translation workshop is christened “Indra Bahadur Rai and Translation: Taking Indra Bahadur Rai BeyondContinue Reading
By Iqra Ahmed Darjeeling: Salesian College Sonada in the Darjeeling hills celebrated Gandhi’s birthday on October 2 by holding a variety of activities in the campus. “Normally people declare a holiday and stay home, but we want to do something different for this generation of students marking 149th year ofContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Darjeeling: Samar Thapa, a Darjeeling based energy engineering scholar, has become the first one in the region to get doctorate in Building Thermal Comfort and Environment. Thapa, an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Salesian College Sonada for more than 15 years, successfully defended his doctoral thesisContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Sonada, Darjeeling — Students of one of the most vulnerable regions in the country for victims of human trafficking got alert on women and child trafficking by one of the leading Non Government Organisations working in the filed for over a decade. The students of Salesian CollegeContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Darjeeling: A college in Darjeeling hills has come up with student and faculty teams reaching out to rural youth with higher education opportunities. In a rare case of hands on radio production by any college in Bengal and entire 8 states of northeast India, 80 year oldContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Darjeeling – A group of college students in Darjeeling Hills celebrated world radio day with a seminar on various aspects of community radio, 15 February. The first batch of six first year students of Mass Communication & Journalism at Salesian College Sonada presented academic papers on variousContinue Reading
Bangalore — The All India Association for Christian Higher Education (AIACHE), New Delhi, in its 18thTriennial Conference and General body meeting held at Christ University from January 29 to 30, elected Principal of Salesian Colege Soanda Dr George Thadathil its president. Dr Thadathil is 14th Principal of Salesian College SonadaContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Darjeeling — A college community radio in Darjeeling hills plans to set out on a historic “Indo-Nepal Friendship Tour” with a team of Radio Journalists visiting 7 institutions in Nepal managed by alumni of Salesian College Sonada (SCS) to mark its 80th year celebrations as well asContinue Reading