PM Modi visited a tea garden in the poll-bound Assam and plucked tea leaves. He also interacted with 19 tea workers ahead of the Assam Assembly election, which is scheduled to be held on April 9, 2026 ...

The battle for the votes of the ‘tea tribes’ has animated the Assam Assembly election campaign as it enters the home stretch. The seven-million-strong community, including Adivasis who were brought by ...

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 ...

Rapid infrastructure expansion across Assam's tea-growing regions has intensified concerns over the deterioration of ...

Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], April 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited a tea garden in Assam's Dibrugarh, interacted with workers, and plucked tea leaves during his visit to the ...

Long before British plantations, Assam’s Singpho tribe brewed Phalap, a fermented bamboo-smoked tea. Explore how it shaped ...

Sanju Joshi’s retail shop sits on a dusty road, overlooking a line of houses— maybe one hundred of them— all belonging to tea plantation workers of the Nahortoli tea gardens in Kodomoni Division in ...

Oolong tea is relatively niche, but it is slowly finding space among people exploring beyond the usual. Sitting somewhere ...

GUWAHATI: The BJP is going to April 9 Assam elections with an increased focus on the Assamese heartland – Upper Assam. The region, comprising 27 of the state’s 126 seats, will be key for the BJP as it ...