The Assam excise department has directed its legal team to “strongly” oppose court stay orders on transfers carried out in the wake of the hooch tragedy.Over 150 people, mostly from the Upper Assa...

Sweet tea was served in place of sulai or hariya for a change as refreshments during a wedding in the tea garden workers’ community.Poonam and Swapnna Tanti, both teachers from the garden workers’...

The Assam excise department’s fledgling steps to prevent a repeat of the recent hooch tragedy could see the involvement of at least eight more government departments to make it broadbased and effect...

The tea garden workers of Samdang and Hilika tea estates in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam on Friday vowed not to consume even a drop of sulai (spurious liquor) or hariya, a traditional drink of the...

The Assam excise department will formally move the state health department with a request to make available the antidote to methanol in every tea garden and district hospital to check/minimise hooch-r...

These are testing times for Assam’s excise department.Following the hooch tragedy that killed over 155 persons, mostly tea plantation workers in three gardens of Upper Assam’s Jorhat and Golaghat ...