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A tea estate in the Alipurduar district closed down on Saturday, leaving 501 workers jobless. The management of of Turturi tea estate, in the Kumargram block around 42km from the district headquarters ...
Assam's government is advancing plans to build a greenfield airport in Doloo Tea Estate, Cachar district. A public hearing ...
Workers' wage protest Workers of the Chinchula tea estate in the Kalchini block struck work on Monday, demonstrating throughout the day in front of the garden’s factory to demand immediate payment of ...
Dibrugarh: Massive erosion by the Brahmaputra, at Chabua in Dibrugarh, has led to large portions of the Balijan tea estate, along with agricultural fields, being washed away, leaving farmers and ...
Ten exceptional students from Sri Lanka’s tea plantation communities have been awarded prestigious scholarships through Serendib Flour Mills’ (SFML) Adhi Shakthi University Scholarship Program, in ...
The next time you make kheer and sprinkle some kesar on it, don’t be surprised if the kesar has come all the way from Rajasthan and not Kashmir. Ditto with tea leaves from a tea estate in ...
Earlier in the week week, we covered Arya Tea Estate, one of on | Part two of our exploration into the only two non-colonial ...
Arya Monk, leader of the founding monks of Arya Tea Estate | An exploration into the only two non-colonial tea estates out of ...
Historically, the link to tea is firmly established in Darjeeling and is part of the hill station's heritage. Although originally conceived as a place of relief from the intense heat of the plains ...
In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of tea making back to the British.
Though its tea factory, which produces CTC tea, had closed in 2005 due to financial issues, the estate was revived in 2007 under a new management and has since become a popular tourist destination.