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West Bengal unveils jobs-led budget with tourism, North Bengal pushWest Bengal's new budget prioritizes a five-pronged revival strategy, focusing on women's empowerment, youth employment, and agriculture. K...
Man quits job to teach watchmen’s children for free: Turns old water tank into a classroom; Many of his students now earn over Rs 20 lakhHyderabad man quits job to teach watchmen’s children: A unique classroom in Hyderabad, built around a water tank, has empowered over 1,500 ...
Himanta Biswa Sarma to take oath on May 12, says Assam NDA 3.0 will unveil ‘full picture’Himanta Biswa Sarma is set to be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Assam on May 12, embarking on his second term. He described his first te...
Dilip Ghosh: The ex-RSS man from Andaman at the heart of Bengal BJP’s riseDilip Ghosh, a former RSS organiser, was instrumental in building the BJP's grassroots network across West Bengal, transforming it from a f...
Hindu votes, Modi ki guarantee: 10 big trends that decode Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala assembly electionsAssembly election results saw the BJP secure victories in West Bengal and Assam, while Tamil Nadu witnessed a surprising debut by Thalapath...
Bengal polls: Matua first family split deepens battle in Bagda, Gaighata as SIR jolts BJP bastionsElections in West Bengal's Bagda and Gaighata are complicated by a divided Matua family. Concerns over voter list deletions create anxiety ...
West Bengal polls first phase: BJP's north Bengal citadel, deleted names and battle for momentumWest Bengal votes in the first phase of assembly elections on Thursday, covering 152 of 294 seats, with over 3.6 crore voters and heavy sec...
Assam Elections: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren predicts tea tribe vote shift to JMMAssam Elections: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren predicted a shift in the tea tribe-Adivasi vote towards Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. He c...
Assam Cabinet hikes tea workers’ wages by ₹30 ahead of polls; BJP to launch Jan Ashirwad Yatra Feb 28Assam's tea garden workers will see a ₹30 daily wage increase. This decision comes ahead of state assembly elections. Wages will now be ₹28...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma begins process to grant land ownership to tea garden workersAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has initiated the distribution of land rights application forms to tea garden workers. This move g...
Assam mulls providing subsidised tea to ration card holdersIn what could be a significant boost to tea consumption, the Assam government is considering a plan to provide one kilogram of tea to ratio...
Wages of tea workers in Assam increased by 27 per dayTea wages was a hotly debated issue in assembly polls last year. Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma in a series of tweet stated, “Ha...
Major portion of budget package to be used for welfare of female tea workers and their kidsThe broad contours of the scheme will include health, education and skill development and will significantly enhance the quality of life of...
Minimum wage of tea estate workers to be revised soon: Himanta Biswa SarmaWage revision of tea workers is one of the election issues in Assam, with Opposition - including Congress - attacking the BJP-led governmen...
Festive Bonus negotiation in tea plantation for 2020 is likely to generate extra warmth.Worker's festival bonus is likely to come up as a major issue of conflict in the labour intensive tea plantation sector. While financially ...
Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha demands workers of state owned tea estates be paid at par with private estatesThere are 26,000 workers in state government owned 14 tea estates of Assam Tea Company Limited (ATCL).
Demonetisation: Tea estate workers to protest against the cashless plan on December 7ACMS general secretary Dileswar Tanti told ET, “We will protest on December 7 across Assam to register protest for the new system is being ...
Demonetization: Workers body ACMS to protest against the cashless plan in the tea estatesTea garden management were allowed to give the cheques to Deputy Commissioners (DC) and DC withdrew the requisite amount and paid back to g...
Assam tea workers to be included in banking operations with 7 lakh new accounts and 1,000 new ATMsPost demonetisation, the first ATM was opened at Dolaguri Tea Estate at Letekujan of Golaghat by the State Bank of India.
Nirmala Sitharaman asks tea producing states to pay minimum wages to tea workersNirmala Sitharaman was in Guwahati on Monday to participate in the stakeholders’ meeting of the tea industry.