McLeod Russel, India’s largest bulk tea producer, is inching towards the resolution of its debt woes as two of its largest lenders seem to be coming on board for a comprehensive restructuring of...
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...
Some tea this Sunday morning? Sure. Milk? A little, yes, a little milk would be fine. Sugar? What? Noooooooooo! No, no, no, please no. Spare me. Perish the thought. Don’t even mention it. That h...
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...
By Anirban Choudhury & Main Uddin Chisti in Alipurduar
The Tea Directorate formed by the state has started a survey in 27 sick gardens of the Dooars to make an assessment of the problems.According to sources at the directorate, people who have been engage...
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...