In 75 hours, India’s longest train journey takes you across 4,188 km, from Assam’s tea gardens to Kanyakumari’s coastline; watch viral videoIndia's longest train journey, the Vivek Express, connects Dibrugarh in Assam to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, covering around 4,188 km in app...
23 Oct, 2026, 10.18 AM IST
Buxa to get its first tigress as Bengal begins tiger reintroduction drive in northA tigress translocated from Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve will be released into West Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve on Friday, marking the fir...
02 Oct, 2026, 01.04 AM IST
Darjeeling 'Toy Train' chugs into top 50 global destinations in 2027The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) has been named among Lonely Planet’s 50 Best in Travel 2027 destinations, with Darjeeling recognised...
01 Oct, 2026, 12.00 AM IST
West Bengal orders 21 closed tea gardens to reopen in 10 daysWest Bengal Transport and Labour Minister Arjun Singh visited North Bengal to address the closure of tea gardens. The state government has ...
25 Sep, 2026, 10.36 PM IST
Food Fables – How Turkey shows that Indian tea’s future might be blackIndia’s tea industry is facing slow domestic growth, but the article argues that the answer may lie in changing how Indians drink tea. Whil...
12 Sep, 2026, 11.26 PM IST
Sweet aromas of nostalgiaA gifted perfume evoked vivid memories of grandmother's puja rituals and autumnal Durga Puja celebrations. Foreign-sounding perfume ingredi...
04 Sep, 2026, 11.27 PM IST
Why are leopards showing up in tea gardens more than forests? IFS officer shares a thought-provoking postIFS officer Parween Kaswan’s X post has sparked discussion about why leopards are increasingly seen in tea gardens. A study on leopard habi...
02 Sep, 2026, 12.42 PM IST
West Bengal Tourism Minister seeks probe into tea garden land sale, usage during TMC regimeWest Bengal Tourism Minister Shankar Ghosh has alleged that land belonging to several North Bengal tea gardens was illegally transferred an...
18 Aug, 2026, 08.13 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee engages in North Bengal outreach, addresses tea garden worker unemployment crisisMamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, actively engages in a public outreach campaign in North Bengal's Chalsa, where she interact...
03 Apr, 2024, 07.52 PM IST
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% ...
11 Oct, 2023, 08.40 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee requests Centre,RBI to help tea garden workers in state"Tea garden workers are hungry and dying due to demonetisation note ban. RBI must immediately restore payments by our government through di...
15 Dec, 2016, 01.49 PM 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
Nirmala Sitharaman meets stakeholders of closed, stressed tea gardensCommerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met stakeholders of closed and stressed tea plantations of West Bengal at Siliguri amidst...
04 Jan, 2016, 11.08 PM IST
70 pc of tea gardens in West Bengal making losses: TAINearly 70 per cent of the gardens operating in West Bengal were not making profits due to low price realisations, industry body Tea Associa...
03 Oct, 2015, 07.41 PM IST
Centre wants minimum wages issue at tea gardens settled soonThe Centre has asked the West Bengal state labour department to settle the minimum wages issue at tea gardens at the earliest.
22 May, 2015, 06.18 PM IST
Centre wants minimum wages issue at West Bengal's tea gardens settled soonThe Centre has asked the West Bengal state labour department to settle the minimum wages issue at tea gardens at the earliest.
22 May, 2015, 05.10 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