Workers of tea gardens in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal are battling acute poverty and unemployment since the tea gardens shut down 10 years ago. The workers are now seeking permission to kill themselves as the extreme situation has even driven many to sell off their women to the human trafficking trade. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 25, 2013
There is a controversy surrounding the brutal killing of a tea garden owner and his wife in Tinsukhia in Assam. Family members of the nine arrested in the case have alleged that workers at the plantation were exploited and even physically abused. ...
08:48 AM, Jan 28, 2013
In a shocking incident in Assam, the owner of a tea estate and his wife were on Wednesday burnt to death by a mob of angry workers. The incident occurred at the Borduma Tea Estate in the Tinsukia tea gardens. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 26, 2012
After anti-corruption activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan's expose on Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals, Congress has counter-attacked the Bhushans for buying land marked for tea gardens in Himachal Pradesh. Shanti Bhushan has replied by asking the government to carry out a probe. "Our land transactions are clean. If the government wants to investigate, they can do so," said Shanti Bhushan. ...
03:59 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Darjeeling: Landslides triggered by heavy overnight rain in the hills caused extensive damage in six tea gardens, while the National Highway 31A which was blocked was cleared by the Border Roads Organisation on Saturday. Work had to be stopped for the day in Takdah and Lopchu gardens because of the landslide, while Bannockburn, Phoobshering, Ging and Pussimbing reported loss of tea bushes, Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA) Principal Secretary, Sandip Mukherjee...
08:14 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Silchar: No work, no pay, no food and left to die, CNN-IBN has exposed hunger deaths in the tea gardens of Silchar in Assam. While the Assam government has rubbished all claims of hunger deaths and reopened the garden on promises, CNN-IBN saw a different story. 35-year-old Ratna Goala is among the ten plantation workers who died out of hunger, lack of medical care and malnutrition in this Assam tea...
06:21 AM, Mar 02, 2012
The Cabinet approves tougher punishment for traffic offences that includes a jail term of two years for rash and drunk driving. ...
10:51 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Silchar: Just weeks after CNN-IBN exposed starvation deaths at a tea garden in Silchar, the Assam government has acted. The government has appointed a one-man inquiry committee to look into the tea estate deaths in Cachar district. The inquiry is to be headed by the additional chief secretary. Four people died as a result of hunger in Silchar as the tea garden in question remained closed for four months. Work...
09:49 PM, Mar 01, 2012
In the Bhuvan Valley Tea estate in Assam, temporary plantation workers get paid forty rupees a day. The permanent lot is a little better off. ...
12:51 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Tea garden workers get lower than minimum wage, inedible rations and don't even get proper medical facilities. ...
11:57 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Silchar: The malnourished and starving workers of the tea garden of Silchar don't get the essential medical help as the area has a non-functional national rural health mission with no qualified doctors, electricity and water supply. Even with wages that are lower than the minimum wage, workers went back to the tea garden when it reopened on February 8. But in the four months when there was no work, 10...
11:26 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Jalpaiguri: As Mamata Banerjee's juggernaut rolls out, the Left seems to have hit a red-end in Jalpaiguri. It looks like the tea tribes are drifting away from the Left. Living on the brink of civilisation, these people have been through decades of neglect and deprivation. Trade-unionism and management woes have left many tea-gardens such as this, shut for years, leaving hundreds of families jobless. Seen as the traditional vote bank...
09:14 AM, Apr 17, 2011
Jalpaiguri: A herd of wild elephants strayed into a tea estate in Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, creating chaos and tension among the people residing in and around the tea gardens on Tuesday. Reportedly, this herd comprising of 50 to 60 adult and calf elephants has been often visiting Dumding tea garden after dusk over the past couple of days. "These elephants attacked two persons in which one died on the...
12:26 PM, Oct 13, 2010
Most tea garden workers are still trapped in underdevelopment. ...
06:17 PM, Mar 22, 2009
An English family that settled in Assam in 1862 now reveals its history. ...
04:11 PM, Aug 15, 2007
The scientists in Tocklai are working on giving the world its first tea-wine. ...
09:08 AM, Aug 09, 2007
The Looksun tea garden is not just functioning but producing more than ever now. ...
04:22 PM, Jul 14, 2007
Tea gardens in north Bengal are in a shambles. ...
10:22 AM, Jul 03, 2007
Reports of deaths due to starvation are there as 20 gardens were closed in Kerala, 17 in Bengal and 2 in Assam. ...
09:25 PM, Mar 18, 2007
