The IMA has demanded that the Assam government ensure exemplary punishment to the culprits. Police has taken into custody around 26 people.

The bandh is called following the two day strike called by the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on January 8 and January 9 next year.

Trade unions have threatened to strike again if the government fails to find a resolution by August 15.

The Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA), however, had sought a much higher package to compensate for the revenue loss and for payments to work...

The strike will be followed by other movement steps until the issue does not find any acceptable solution.

The strikes were an aberration but what has happened has happened. There will be no victimisation, says Mathew Abraham, managing director, ...

The agitators were not only adamant that they wouldn't deal with trade unions to negotiate their demand for a 20% bonus but also refused to...

The CPM has rejected the view put forward by its trade union wing that Tamil militants were behind the strike of the tea workers of Munnar.

Workers of KDHP in Munnar ended their strike after 9 days, with the company agreeing to their demand for higher bonus, but repercussions ar...

The Munnar tea workers' nineday-long agitation has come to an end in the last round of talks with CM Oommen Chandy and the agitators' repre...

Munnar-based company Kannan Devan Hills Plantation today said it was incurring "huge loss on a daily basis" due to the ongoing strike by it...

Strike has evoked a mixed response as life has been quite normal in Darjeeling district while normal life was affected in Jalpaiguri.

“The wage settlement is our definite priority and we are in support of the movement,” said BJP Vice President S S Ahluwalia.

Tea gardens in Darjeeling may go for close if the impasse in hills due to ongoing indefinite strike continues.

The vagaries of weather and ongoing strike by cardamom plantation workers for wage increase have dimmed the hopes for a better cardamom cro...

Around three lakh workers in 300 tea gardens of North Bengal and Doars area today observed a one-day's token strike demanding renewal of th...

Senior West Bengal Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyay today said the indefinite strike in the Darjeeling hills for a separate Gorkhaland st...