Export of tea from India dipped for the second consecutive year in 2021 because of Covid-19 and the resultant lockdown and the stakeholders’ expectation of a rise in the sale of the brew in the ...

India stares at a sharp decline in tea export because of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Ajay Jalan, president of the Tea Association of India (TAI), on Saturday said that the Russian invasion of Ukr...

A halt in the movement of trucks carrying coal from the Northeast to the tea states of north Bengal has left tea companies worried as production of the brew is set to resume from the middle of this mo...

Three associations of tea planters in the Dooars, which has the highest concentration of tea estates in the north, have ordered all their member gardens to ban workers who have not received both doses...

Representatives of tea planters in north Bengal and Assam have sought the immediate intervention of the Narendra Modi government to address the shortage in coal supply at the tea estates and the rise ...

A recent move by the Union commerce and industry ministry to amend a 68-year-old central act that used to restrict tea cultivation without clearances has caused many in the brew belt to believe that i...

A group of armed burglars held three employees of a tea estate at gunpoint on the outskirts of Siliguri on Thursday afternoon and decamped with around Rs 26 lakh that was to be disbursed as wages amon...

The tea industry in north Bengal said announcements in the Union budget would help workers at large but rued that the cess on petroleum products would push up the manufacturing cost.  “It ...

Residents of two tea estates in the Dooars can avail banking services from near home from now on, as the State Bank of India (SBI) opened customer service points (CSPs) at the gardens on Friday. This...

The Tea Association of India has said coronavirus pandemic and floods have brought the “tea industry to its knees”. According to P.K. Bhattacharjee, TAI secretary general, the industry is...