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West Bengal Poll violence concerns dominate voters' psyche at Dinhata, Sitalkuchi assembly seatsAn eerie unease grips Cooch Behar's Dinhata and Sitalkuchi constituencies as elections approach. A history of political violence between TM...
Union Budget charts a resilient, outward-looking path for Atmanirbhar Bharat: ExpertsUnion Budget 2026-27 and Economic Survey 2025-26 outline a plan for growth, according to experts. This approach strengthens domestic capabi...
Strategic insights flourish at ET Make in India SME Summit’s Kolkata ChapterStakeholders, including Bengal cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and MSMEs, Shashi Panja, entrepreneurs from food product companies, an...
North Bengal tea gardens settle for 19 per cent bonus payment for FY'23: OfficialTea gardens in the Dooars and Terai regions of north Bengal have agreed to pay a bonus of 19% for the 2022-23 fiscal year, compared to 20% ...
India's tea industry getting drowsy, needs some 'kadak' measuresIf strong measures are not taken, the industry could be struggling for survival. It is beset by problems on several fronts: Price, demand, ...
Tea producers call for all stakeholders to ensure industry's resilience and growthTAI representing tea producers in Assam & West Bengal, is concerned by the pressing challenges faced in the current season by the tea indus...
Tea industry facing multiple challenges in wake of Covid pandemic: ExpertsProduction, too, has seen a decrease in the last few years since the onset of the pandemic due to restrictions on plucking -- from 1,390 mi...
Tea crop affected in north India due to rains: TAIThe crop declined 11 per cent in Assam in June 2022 at 76.87 million kg from 86.37 million kg in the same month of previous year. In Barak ...
NIA arrests TMC leader Chhatradhar Mahato in 2009 murder caseMahato, the former convenor of the Maoist-backed People Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), was nabbed from his residence in Jhargram distric...
Four MPs, actors, defectors, and an economist, BJP raises stakes in Bengal gameIn the ST-dominated Alipurduar constituency which has many tea estates, Lahiri is pitted against TMC’s sitting MLA Sourav Chakraborty who p...
BJP youth leader arrested with cocaine in Kolkata, party says foul play likelyPamela Goswami, the state secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), was along with a friend, identified as Prabir Kumar Dey, in her...
Long pending dispute over tea wage may get resolved on FridayPrevailing stalemate in wage negotiation for tea workers in West Bengal may find a direction towards resolution in the vital tri partite me...
Workers movement may put high value ‘first flush’ tea under crisisRigidity of both employers and employees on own standpoint make situation highly detrimental to industry at busiest period of tea plantatio...
Assam and West Bengal's Tea Trade union’s handshaking likely to revive worker’s wage issueThe handshaking is mainly between of INTUC from Assam and a huge group of 22 tea trade Unions including CITU, INTUC, or those under governa...
Tribal tea workers in Bengal tea belt on wage movement; situation may culminate into a big crisis"Yes we are kept by tea gardens as nothing but bonded labours. We do have definite logical explanation," claimed Mr. Tej Kumar Toppo .
Fifth round of vital tea wage settlement meeting ends inconclusivelyThe two day long vital tea wage settlement meeting for around 3.5 lakh tea workers of over 400 tea gardens in Terai, Dooars and Darjeeling ...
Vital Tea wage settlement meeting remained inconclusiveThe vital meeting to settle new wage structure for around 3.5 lakh workers of over 400 tea gardens in Terai ended inconclusively.