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The mudslide struck at around 7:30 am and wiped out 120 workers' homes at the Meeribedda tea estate in Badulla district, 218 kilometers (135 miles) east of the capital, Colombo, said Lal Sarath ...
Officers from Badulla Police’s Criminal Investigation Department went to Badulla Glenpin estate and conducted this raid and found the revolver and ammunition hidden in a polythene bag in a tea estate.
The Madhu tea estate in Alipurduar district, which is likely to reopen soon. File photo Madhu tea estate in Kalchini block of Alipurduar district, closed for around seven years, is likely to reopen ...
A 73-year-old doctor who was attacked by workers of a tea estate in Assam's Jorhat district on Saturday died of injuries at a government hospital.
11 lives lost to diarrhea in Tongonagaon tea estate, Tinsukia district in 10 days. Epidemic suspected due to contaminated water/food. MLA Rupesh Gowala directs immediate action, most fatalities in ...
Small parts of what were once lush tea plantations in the Nuwara Eliya District — that earned a worldwide reputation for its high grown quality tea — may now become garbage dumps. Plantation ...
Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India's Nilgiris region — a gateway to ...
However, 74 families residing in estate lines in Haputale Division were happy to be evacuated on Saturday (21). Last Saturday (21) afternoon rains in Haputale area blocked the Badulla-Colombo road in ...
Gates of the Bundapani tea estate in Madarihat block of Alipurduar district reopened after nine long years on Monday. Bulu Chik Baraik, the minister of state for backward classes’ welfare and tribal ...
The workers and employees of the locked-out Bhuvan Valley tea estate in Cachar district are relieved as the tea estate reopened on Tuesday.At least 1,000 workers will join their duty on Thursday.
TSHIVHASE Tea Estate in the Vhembe district of Limpopo is struggling to source funding to market an accumulated stock of 151 000kg of Midi Tea, according to factory manager Daniel Mudau.
The mudslide struck at around 07:30 and wiped out 120 workers' homes at the Meeribedda tea estate in Badulla district, 218km east of the capital, Colombo, said Lal Sarath Kumara, an official from the ...