The Regional football tournament was held on 26th and 27th July on the football ground of St. Xavier’s School, Sahibganj.

The Senior category consisted of four teams from Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Ranchi and Bhagalpur Zones and Junior teams consisted of five teams from Ranchi, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Deoghar and Bhagalpur Zones.

The teams were divided into two pools for each category and senior team had knock out system and junior league system. The opening ceremony began at 10.00 am on 26th July and Sr. Amrita, the Zonal coordinator of Bhagalpur was the chief guest and Dr. Ranjit was the chief guest for the closing ceremony on 27th July.

After a huge success of 2 seasons of DOX Cricket Tournament, the Executive team decided to start DOX Football League to the annual DOX calendar.

DOX Football League (DFL) would be conducted professionally with proper Logistics & infrastructure and will be facilitated by the DFL Subcommittee, which comprises of volunteers from DOX. The Event is planned on 4th & 5th August, which is a weekend at St. Xavier’s School, Doranda.

Convenor for the Event is Mr Manish Kumar and Co Convenor is Mr Vishal Patodia.

Team Owners: Mr Vishal Jain, Mr. Taranbir Singh Sahni, Mr. Alok Minocha, Mr. Abhishek Victor, Mr. Sanika Soy, Mr. Piyush Agarwal

Name of Teams: Gonzaga United , Xavier’s Pride, Denobili Eagles, John De Britto FC, Loyola Rangers, and Berchman’s Rovers.

26th May 2018 witnessed a joint activity of Jesuit Alumni /ae of Kerala (JAAK) with other voluntary Organizations.  Every year, every single one in Helping Hands Organization (H2O) come together to begin the new academic year, with a little bit of hope to bring in to hundreds of underprivileged children, by providing them with basic school needs and clothing. Additionally, this year H2O also introduced the Me, The Change Notebooks – an initiative to create and inculcate a culture of doing good deeds, however small, every day and documenting the same. The distribution of these notebooks during the event, encourage the children to document their good act, or acts of being an active citizen, from day 1.

This year, H20 distributed study materials to 270 children, from backgrounds of little privilege from the wards of Kadinamkulam Panchayat. H2O is looking at providing school kits to 135 beneficiaries, soon.

Well known Hindi writer Dr. PETER PAUL EKKA SJ passed away this morning at Guwahati Airport. He was on his way to Ranchi. A well known Hindi writer and literary man Dr. Peter was in Ranchi St. Xaviers College till last year. He was transferred to St. Xaviers college Tezpur in 2017. His departure is an irreparable lose for Ranchi Jesuits and also for Hindi Literature. JEA expresses deep shock and condolence to all who lost his presence. RIP. Dr. Fr. Peter Paul Ekka, sj

Born in Samtoli (Badkatoli), Simdega, Jharkhand in humble tribal family. Had his early education in his village itself. In 1973 he joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained a Priest in 1987.He was educated in Ranchi, Chennai, Pune, New Delhi, and Marquette University (USA).Matriculation from St. Ignatius High School Gumla, Intermediate from St. Xavier's college, Ranchi, Novitiate & Juniorate from St. Stanislaus College, Sitagarha, Hazaribagh. B.Sc. (Chemistry