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 sum of more than Rs 2 crore is lying in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration’s kitty but the hill body is hard-pressed to decide on its utilisation as different opinions have cropped up o...

The state government intervened on the deadlock over bonus between hill tea planters and workers’ unions on Tuesday, advising planters to give the bonus in two instalments in October. In the th...

Sixty-nine-year-old Mathew Philips wants to go to his home in Kerala and look after his rubber plantations. But there is a small hitch.  Residents of Newlands tea estate in the Dooars are not r...

A directive issued by the Tea Board of India to to the tea industry of the country to celebrate “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” or seventy-five years of Indian Independence has drawn flak from v...

Bonus talks between hill tea garden unions and officials of the Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA) failed for the second time on Wednesday. Although hill planters agreed to pay bonus at the rate of 20 ...

The Tatas have been dragged into a snowballing controversy over an unchecked flood of Nepal tea imports into the country. The Rs 7,287-crore Tata Consumer Products Ltd (TCPL, formerly Tata Tea) has b...

Bonus talks between hill tea garden unions and officials of the Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA) failed on Wednesday, with industry principals insisting on payment in instalments, a proposition tea un...

A delegation of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) held a meeting with representatives of the tea industry here on Monday and proposed that tea from north Bengal and the Northeast could be exported ...

Aditya Khaitan, promoter of McLeod Russel India, has challenged the National Company Law Tribunal’s order to start insolvency proceedings against the country’s largest bulk tea producer. ...