The West Bengal government has allocated over Rs 1,000 crore for the welfare of tea garden workers in the state since 2011, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday. Banerjee, in a Twitter post on…
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Chaiwala PM doesn’t care for tea growers in Assam: State’s largest tea garden union
The largest tea garden union of the BJP-ruled Assam has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ignoring the plights of the tea growers in this Northeast state, while calling himself a ‘chaiwala’. The union has…
Kaushal Dugar: Bring the end consumer a garden in a tea cup
Raised in Darjeeling, it’s little wonder that Kaushal Dugar lives and breathes tea. With his family in the tea business (his father used to supply tea plantations with mechanical equipment and his brother runs a…
India investment Roundup: an online Tea save, a home renovation market, and extra
VC firm Saama Capital India Advisers became inside the information currently, after raising $100 million (roughly Rs. 680 crores) in three separate finances. Our ultra-modern investment roundup sees angel and pre-series A funding rounds in…
High Stakes for BJP and Congress in the Fragrant Tea Gardens of Upper Assam
File photo of tea gardens in Assam. Credit: Akarsk Simha flickr cc There is a common saying among Assamese that you know you are in upper Assam by merely smelling the air. With roughly 800…