What seemed at first like an ordinary snakebite in Assam, India, quickly became a neurological emergency. Within hours, a tea ...

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 ...

Dibrugarh: Tea workers, mostly female leaf pluckers, held hour-long demonstrations at five tea estates in Dibrugarh district on Thursday under the banner of the Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS), ...

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the special bonus will be distributed in over 800 tea gardens of Assam before ...

Under blazing skies at a tea plantation in India's northeastern state of Assam, picker Kamini Kurmi wears an umbrella fastened over her head to keep her hands free to pluck delicate leaves from the ...

Workers from tea gardens that had remained closed during the past three years would receive the assistance through the Labour ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday announced a festive-season package of Rs 5,000 and 50 kg of rice for each eligible family of tea garden workers rendered jobless by garden ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced a special bonus of 20 per cent for tea garden workers across ...

Workers pluck tea leaves using cutters at a tea estate in Nilgiris district, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Scattered groves of ...