Tea garden workers in India’s Assam hit by second wave of COVID. More than 7,000 cases spread across the state’s 403 out of 800 large tea gardens since April, while at least 53 people have died.

Velvety darkness falls suddenly — around 4.30pm in these parts. That’s why tea planters talk about ‘garden time’ and think nothing of getting up at 4am to go to kaam jaari (work). My first ...

"Tea garden owners in Assam are being threatened. Chief Minister's associates and his family members are buying tea gardens.

In a tea garden in Assam, 19 deaths in one month leave workers scared and confused Golaghat district’s health department puts it down to alcohol poisoning. Families of the deceased say some of ...

Assam’s tea garden workers objected to this last condition, that the tea garden management will also manage the schools. “They want us to always pluck tea leaves,” said Depen Tanti, ...

Guwahati, May 24 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday announced a hike in the daily wages of tea garden labourers in the state Monday 26 May 2025 04:41 GMT عربي ...

"It is affecting the tea gardens in a number of ways." In the tea-growing areas of Assam, average temperatures have risen 2C and rainfall has fallen by more than a fifth in the past 80 years.

Guwahati (Assam) [India] January 23 (ANI): In a landmark initiative to strengthen healthcare services in Assam's tea Garden areas, the National Health Mission (NHM), Assam, signed a Memorandum of ...

Judah describes Victory Tea Estate, published by Palimpsest, as a celebration of life as it really is.. The novel, intricately woven around tea-garden life in the eastern Himalayas in the 20th ...