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West Bengal: Ex-BJP leader John Barla joins TMC ahead of 2026 electionsIn a significant political shift ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, former BJP Union Minister John Barla joined Trinamool Congress, expressi...15 May, 2025, 10.43 PM IST- Tea industry issues hold key in north Bengal pollsThe sector is plagued by the twin blows of rising production costs and lower price realisation at the auctions, former Tea Board chairman P...11 Apr, 2024, 12.15 PM IST
- Climate change takes centrestage as Bengal's tea junction prepares to voteDooars faces climate change impacts on tea estates, with Gorkha community seeking Gorkhaland. Political contests intensify in LS seats. Mam...10 Apr, 2024, 01.47 PM IST
- West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to distribute land deeds to tea garden workersClaiming that West Bengal Chief Minister is "misleading the tea-garden workers with false promises about land deeds", BJP Leader of Opposit...07 Dec, 2023, 08.36 PM IST
- BJP and Trinamool Congress vie to woo tea workersThe plight of tea garden workers is a major poll issue. BJP says the Union budget promise Rs 1,000 crore for development of tea gardens, wh...10 Apr, 2021, 07.46 AM IST
- Bengal polls: Vital tea garden workers' votes hinge on minimum wages, land rightsThe tea belt of Dooars and Terai region in north Bengal, comprising 12 constituencies, will go to polls on Saturday and April 17, respectiv...10 Apr, 2021, 07.07 AM IST
- Non-fixation of minimum wages, closed gardens main poll issues in Bengal tea beltThe tea belt is located in Darjeeling, Terai and Dooars region of North Bengal where 3 lakh odd permanent workers are employed in around 30...30 Mar, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
- Dolomite contaminated water inundation puts tea in Himalayan foothills under crisisFlow of water, highly contaminated with dolomite from illegal mines in Bhutan, through rivers in Dooars region had always remained a concer...18 Aug, 2017, 07.05 AM IST
- Mamata Banerjee constitutes empowered group of ministers to look after closed and sick tea gardensAll the opposition parties are constantly attacking the ruling TMC on the issue of deaths at the closed and sick gardens and the chief mini...21 Oct, 2016, 05.19 PM IST
- Tea workers' problems to be sorted out: Nirmala SitharamanNirmala Sitharaman today met tea garden workers and assured them that their problems would be sorted out.04 Jan, 2016, 02.01 PM IST
- Amid opposition outcry, Mamata holds meeting on deaths in closed tea gardensWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with officials to discuss ways and means to address the crisis in tea gardens in ...05 Nov, 2015, 09.45 PM IST
- Tea workers in Bengal demand wage revisionTwenty-seven trade union organisations representing tea garden workers in north Bengal today took out several processions demanding wage re...09 Feb, 2015, 03.32 PM IST
- Strike: West Bengal ex-minister detained; functioning hit at tea gardensStrike has evoked a mixed response as life has been quite normal in Darjeeling district while normal life was affected in Jalpaiguri.12 Nov, 2014, 12.57 PM IST
- Hunger deaths stalk North Bengal tea estatesThe Godhulibazar North East Society for Empowerment of Public, an NGO working in tea belt, says the number of deaths has touched 100.30 Jul, 2014, 12.09 PM IST
- Mamata Banerjee formally declares Alipurduar as 20th district of West BengalThe Jalpaiguri district in North Bengal's Dooars region was bifurcated today to create Alipurduar district - the 20th in West Bengal.25 Jun, 2014, 06.07 PM IST
- Ground zero Alipurduar: Duel of Tirkeys hinges on brews, booze & scam scarsLarge-scale alcohol distribution in tribal areas during election campaign helps political parties win over voters and despite all the effor...26 Mar, 2014, 12.32 PM IST
- Tea garden announces suspension of workThe managemnt of New Dooars Tea Garden at Banrhat in Jalpaiguri district has put up a notice announcing suspension of work, official source...15 Dec, 2013, 02.49 PM IST
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