A notification from Assam’s labour welfare department on the interim hike of Rs 50 in the daily wage of tea workers in the BJP-ruled state prompted the saffron camp in north Bengal to point out ...

 The annual tea production in the small tea sector surpassed the contribution of tea estates in the pandemic year 2020, recent data released by the Tea Board has revealed. The data, with compreh...

The tea industry in north Bengal said announcements in the Union budget would help workers at large but rued that the cess on petroleum products would push up the manufacturing cost.  “It ...

Existence of two trade unions in the tea garden belt of north Bengal, one floated by a BJP MP and the other belonging to the party’s ideological parent, RSS, might harm the party’s poll pr...

Prahlad Singh Patel, the Union minister of state for tourism and culture, reached here and went to the Darjeeling hills on Friday on a three-day visit aimed at reaching out to stakeholders of tea and ...

The Tea Association of India has said coronavirus pandemic and floods have brought the “tea industry to its knees”. According to P.K. Bhattacharjee, TAI secretary general, the industry is...

The tea industry needs “disruption” or else it will not be able to survive, Indian Tea Association chairman Vivek Goenka said at the inauguration of the two-day Tocklai Tea Conference here on Frid...

The hand that held two leaves and a bud is trying out a pair of shears in the gardens of Darjeeling — possibly for the first time in 165 years.The steel blades are being wielded to pluck tealeaves t...

The first wave of floods has added to the woes of the Assam tea industry, which is already passing through an extremely bleak phase.A statement issued by the Assam Branch Indian Tea Association (Abita...

The Union home ministry has issued guidelines exempting the tea industry, including plantations with maximum of 50 per cent workers, from lockdown restrictions.This was issued as a fourth addendum to ...