The annual tea production in the small tea sector surpassed the contribution of tea estates in the pandemic year 2020, recent data released by the Tea Board has revealed. The data, with compreh...

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...

A clutch of foreign investors from Europe is taking over the management control and picking up a bigger ownership of the largest tea producer of Darjeeling. The Indian promoter, Sanjay Prakash Bansal...

Tea trade union leaders present at the meeting said on Sunday, the management will disburse the due wages of 16 days (of October 2019) among the workers and will also pay a month’s salary to the...

The Tea Board of India has got in touch with the Union commerce ministry for its intervention to enforce rules to prevent the “indiscriminate import and sale of Nepalese tea” in the countr...

Heavy monsoon in north Bengal has hit the tea belt hard, representatives of tea planters’ association said on Wednesday. “The unremitting rainfall in the region has affected production in...

Happy Valley, a tea garden owned by Darjeeling Organic Tea Estates Pvt Limited (DOTEPL), has not lived up to its name. Its 13 sister gardens in the hills are also in distress. Reason, their parent co...

The Mamata Banerjee government, for the first time, decided to offer three closed tea gardens on lease to prospective investors. Last week, the state department of land and land reforms, refugee reha...

The Jalpaiguri district administration is moving into closed and sick tea estates to extend all possible help to workers and their families.Under the “Sanyong” initiative, teams from different sta...

Timon Habi tea estate manager Numal Boruah, 55, who was abducted from his garden bungalow in Upper Assam’s Charaideo district on Tuesday night, remained untraced on Thursday.Additional superintenden...