The tea industry in north Bengal is worried over the halt in the supply of coal from the Northeast after orders from chief minister Mamata Banerjee that trucks with “illegal” coal consignm...

Madhu tea estate in the Kalchini block of Alipurduar district reopened on Wednesday after seven years. The garden had been shut on September 23, 2014, following disagreement between workers and the m...

The first flush of tea leaves from the Temi Tea Garden, South Sikkim, has fetched Rs 7,500 per kilo in the open bid online sale of the current cropping season. This price for the first flush of Temi ...

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Stakeholders of the Indian tea industry have sought suitable steps from the Narendra Modi government to check the “unbridled import” of Nepal tea, which they said was affecting the oversea...

The Bengal labour department has asked tea planters to submit a proposal of the minimum wage that they can offer to over three lakh workers in the sector. The instruction was given at a meeting of th...

Stakeholders of the tea industry have expressed concern over the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the impact on the export of Indian teas if the situation continues. “Russia is t...

A halt in the movement of trucks carrying coal from the Northeast to the tea states of north Bengal has left tea companies worried as production of the brew is set to resume from the middle of this mo...

The Centre will spend nearly Rs 1,000 crore for the Indian tea industry with focus on the small tea sector that contributes close to 50 per cent of the total tea produced in the country, a source in t...

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 ...