Historically, the link to tea is firmly established in Darjeeling and is part of the hill station's heritage. Although originally conceived as a place of relief from the intense heat of the plains ...

Panighatta tea garden in Darjeeling hills set to reopen after 10 years under new owner Bagaria Group, new owner of the estate, currently operates three other tea gardens — two in the Mirik subdivision ...

Darjeeling: Workers fast for tea garden’s closure Hamro Party president Ajoy Edwards and his wife Namrata also joined agitators at the Kanchan View tea garden in solidarity with them. Vivek Chhetri ...

On November 17, Prabhat gave this correspondent a ride from Tukvar Tea Garden to Darjeeling town while going to the district hospital to bring one of his neighbours back.

Darjeeling has 87 tea gardens spread across roughly 19,000 hectares, employing about 52,000 permanent workers. Around 200,000 families are dependant on the wages of these garden workers.

Darjeeling MP Raju Bista has strongly opposed chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to allow 30 per cent of tea garden ...

Arya Monk, leader of the founding monks of Arya Tea Estate | An exploration into the only two non-colonial tea estates out of ...

The garden, founded in 1786, was instrumental in introducing and acclimatizing tea plants, including tea bushes smuggled from China. The recent revival effort began with planting 500 saplings from ...

Nilanjan Bhadra, 45, was found dead on Thursday afternoon inside the tea garden. The body has been sent for autopsy. SILIGURI: A 45-year-old assistant manager of a tea garden in West Bengal’s ...

The West Bengal government and the Tea Planters’ Association of Darjeeling hills on Friday agreed to the demand of tea garden workers across 87 gardens in the Darjeeling hills for a 20% bonus.