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tea estate news

Crisis hits North India's tea industry as production falls amid extreme weather

The crisis is due to severe lack of rainfall and excessive heat that has plagued the region throughout the current cropping season.
Updated on Jun 20, 2024 04:40 pm IST

Chai Masala is officially the second best non-alcoholic beverage

In the global ranking, Chai Masala was positioned third, following Hong Kong-style Milk Tea and Aguas Frescas from Mexico.
Published on Jan 15, 2024 09:35 pm IST

Centre takes steps to curb blending of  imported tea with Indian teas

A majority of the blended teas currently available in the market is actually for re-exports
Published on Nov 11, 2021 08:09 pm IST

Workers rise above political affiliation, unite in agitation at Bengal’s biggest tea garden

Tea garden workers on hunger strike.
Updated on Aug 23, 2020 03:49 pm IST

Kerala landslide death count climbs to 27, more than 40 still missing

Rescue operation underway at the landslide site in Rajamala, Idukki, on Aug 8, 2020.
Updated on Aug 08, 2020 08:55 pm IST

Assam doctor booked for allegedly ridiculing tea-tribe community in satire

Tea garden workers gather to weigh tea leaves after plucking them at a tea estate in Assam’s Nagaon district,.
Published on Oct 07, 2019 09:54 am IST

Doctors go on strike in Assam to protest colleague’s murder in tea estate

Assam Medical College and Hospital Teachers Association and the Assam wing of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) take out a candle light march in Dibrugarh to protest the murder Dr Deben Dutta in a tea estate in Teok.
Published on Sept 03, 2019 09:52 pm IST

73-year-old doctor beaten to death by Assam tea garden workers

An elderly doctor of a tea estate in Assam’s Jorhat district has succumbed to his injuries allegedly inflicted by garden workers following the death of one of their colleagues who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in the plantation. (Representative Image)
Updated on Sept 01, 2019 01:20 pm IST

Bootlegged liquor kills 42 in Assam

The deaths, which include 15 women and 17 men, come less than a fortnight after around 100 people died of poisoning from country-made liquor in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Updated on Feb 23, 2019 09:49 am IST

Mob lynches brother of man accused of killing a couple in Assam

At about 8 am on Friday, Jaggu’s brother Puran Praja was waylaid by a mob when he was returning to his house on the tea estate, police said.
Updated on Oct 20, 2018 01:22 am IST

Three undertrials escape from Tamil Nadu prison, caught within two hours

The escaped undertrials reportedly hurled stones at police, injuring three of them.
Published on Jun 21, 2018 07:58 am IST

Tamil Nadu deploys armed guards in Valparai tea estates after two leopard attacks in 48 hours

Officials said the wildlife encounters will be studied in detail and clues from 20 camera traps are now under study.
Updated on Jun 16, 2018 09:32 pm IST

Woman mauled to death by leopard in Tamil Nadu

This is the second attack by a leopard in Valparai region since Thursday.
Published on Jun 16, 2018 12:07 am IST

HC scraps Doon, Mussoorie master plans

Clock tower of Dehradun.
Updated on Jun 15, 2018 10:03 pm IST

Veteran Bengal planter gifts his stake in iconic Makaibari tea estate to workers

Swaraj Kumar Banerjee, 70, oversaw day-to-day operations at the estate from the back of his two horses.
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 10:35 am IST