PM Modi distributes land deeds to 28,000 Assam tea workers, addressing decades of deprivation under Congress rule.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on February 11 said that tea exports from Assam have increased by 40 million kilograms after a gap of 25 years, marking a significant milestone for the state’s ...

Assam’s tea industry is one of the oldest and most recognizable in the world. Yet, behind its global reputation lies a manufacturing process that has barely changed in decades. Most factories still ...

Despite ST status in other states, over 70 lakh Adivasis remain categorised as OBCs in Assam Political resistance and competing claims continue to delay constitutional recognition Amarjeet Kerketta’s ...

The Assam government has released Rs 94.70 crores under Assam Tea Industries Special Incentive Scheme (ATISIS), after the Iran and US-Israel war hit the tea exports. The ceremonial distribution of ...

Several thousand tea estate workers, many of them Catholics, in India’s northeastern state of Assam staged a mass protest on Oct. 13 to demand constitutional status as tribal people, higher wages, and ...

Before the 1920s, tea was a brew enjoyed only by Anglicised Indians, even though some indigenous communities from the Northeast had been infusing tea long before the British inhabited the subcontinent ...

Export figures have shown encouraging growth. Amid rising geopolitical tensions in Iran and the broader Middle East region, concerns are mounting within the Indian tea industry, particularly for Assam ...

In Assam’s tea gardens, teenage elopement, alcohol abuse and school dropouts are driving a quiet child marriage crisis.

Dibrugarh: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the EU-India free trade agreement will ensure that Assam tea shipments will reach European countries with zero tariff. Addressing a public ...