Conceived in 2009 when Khanna, a professor in Harvard University, was sipping a hot cup of tea at a cafe in Mumbai with his student Amuleek...

TATA Starbucks opened its first store in a metro station at the Western Express Highway metro station in Mumbai. It will offer quick grab-a...

Mumbai-based AbCoffee has raised $3.4 million funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to accelerate supply chain and technology stack for aff...

Despite stiff competition from Taj Mahal, Tata Tea, Brooke Bond Red Label and Taaza, Society Tea has maintained its leadership in Maharasht...

One of the biggest changes in India's food scene in the last five years has been what can only be called the café-isation of chai.

Outlets such as Chaayos, Chai Point, Chai Story and Chai Thela are giving stiff competition to coffee biggies like Starbucks and Cafe Coffe...

While giants such as Tata and Hindustan Unilever sell tea to the majority, startups are trying to create a market, both in India and abroad...

A divisive campaign has seen the Trump camp making allegations of corruption, thus far unfounded, against Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Kolkata got its first specialty tea boutique way back in 1987 when Dolly Roy, India’s first woman tea taster and tea auctioneer, opened the...

The slight December chill means one thing: a good cup of tea. We bring you some of the fun brews in Mumbai.

Delhi’s popular chai café Chaayos makes its Mumbai debut with a Bandra outlet that claims to customise tea in 12,000 different ways.

At present customers have to order a minimum of two cups of chai for delivery that translate to an average price point of Rs 119.

Barring a Haldiram or a Bikanervala, most desi snacks and beverages have stayed in the unorganized sector, sold by vendors using ancient, u...

Amid India’s increasingly crowded startup ecosystem, where two startups are founded every day on an average, how does one truly stand out?

As the tea claims to imbue the drinker with limitless NaMo-like energy and bring new hope to the nation, its provenance also needs to be in...

The beverage has become synonymous with India, so any developments in the field of tea vending should be of concern.

Nationally, the tea shoppe segment is still at a nascent stage though there are already 41 such across India.