A fresh relief came for the tea industry of Bengal on Monday as the state government announced 50 per cent of the workforce could be engaged in plucking and other operations in gardens.“It is good ...

Rosekandy tea estate in Assam’s Cachar district, where 800 labourers are on ceasework since last Sunday, is still closed.The Cachar administration had clamped Section 144 IPC in the garden on Friday...

The Indian Tea Association (ITA), the largest organisation of planters in the country, on Saturday urged the Centre to facilitate the Aadhaar enrolment of garden workers, pointing out that many labour...

The biscuit seems to have lost its crunch. Now the “chai” seems hard to brew.Representatives of the Consultative Committee of Plantation Associations (CCPA) — the apex body of tea planters’ f...