The tea industry is bracing for a decline in exports to the tune of 30-40 million kg this year as compared to 2020, due to the availability of low-cost varieties in the global market and amid trade re...

Bagrakote tea estate, one of the premium gardens in the Dooars that had been abandoned by the management six years ago, was reopened on Thursday. A new company from Calcutta took over the estate that...

A wild male leopard was trapped on the Haldibari tea estate in Banarhat of Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday. Sources said in the past few days, the residents and the managerial staff of the garden ha...

An adult leopard is trapped at Gopalpur tea estate in Alipurduar district on Sunday morning after a vigil of nearly a month. Sources in the garden said that cattle had been disappearing from the Moho...

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The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s Binay Tamang camp has requested the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration to allocate Covid-19 vaccines to tea garden workers and teachers and non-teaching staff of ...

But deep in the heart of the gardens, where ongoing tea picking season means non-stop work, workers said they had no access to separate quarantine facilities and were constantly worried they would spr...

The gates of the Toorsa tea estate will reopen on Wednesday after 20 months. Located in Kalchini block of Alipurduar district, the garden had closed on October 2019, leaving around 800 workers jobles...

Opposition Congress on Saturday said the BJP-led Assam government’s flip-flop on the tea garden workers’ daily wage hike issue is a lesson for everyone who voted for the party in the recen...

The BJP-led Assam government on Friday evening decided to go for an interim daily wage hike of Rs 38 for tea garden workers after cancelling the earlier hike of Rs 50 notified on February 23. The dec...