Dispur has ordered testing of tea garden workers for Covid-19 to prevent the pandemic, which has infected over 35,000 people in Assam, from spreading to the labour lines in the state. The urgency in ...

An elephant calf that had fallen into a drain of a tea garden in the Dooars and got stuck in the mud was rescued by workers on Tuesday before foresters could reach the spot. Sources said a herd of 25...

A conglomeration of trade unions for tea estate workers has said demonstrations will be held in each garden on Friday to press for revision of wages and granting of land rights to tea plantation dwell...

Hardly any job opportunity and the spectre of far lower wages than what they had been accustomed to getting have prompted many migrant workers who returned to the tea gardens in the Dooars and Cooch B...

A conglomeration of over 20 trade unions of tea garden workers has threatened an agitation in the Darjeeling hills for immediate payment of arrears and fixing of minimum wages in the sector. The Joint...

The Assam Congress on Sunday constituted a 22-member committee to look into the grievances of tea garden workers to woo the community ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.Party insiders said it was worri...

The management of the Mujnai Tea Estate in Alipurduar has announced suspension of work at the garden.This is the second garden in the Dooars to close down in the past 24 hours. On Tuesday morning, the...

A halt in disbursal of financial assistance by the state government has added to the woes of over 10,000 jobless workers and their families in nine closed tea gardens in the Dooars.Under the Financial...

The BJP candidates of Silchar and Karimganj (SC) Lok Sabha constituencies are eying the 3.7 lakh voters of the 104 tea gardens of Barak Valley in southern Assam capitalising on the schemes and cashles...

The BJP and Congress are trying to woo the 32,000 tea voters ahead of the bypoll to the Ratabari (SC) Assembly constituency in Barak Valley. Besides Ratabari, bypolls will be held in three Assembly co...