The Tocklai Tea Research Institute in Assam has launched an innovative method to combat tea pests naturally by breeding ...

Union Minister Piyush Goyal engaged in a crucial dialogue with Assam's tea industry stakeholders, promising resolutions to ...

Dibrugarh: Four prominent organisations took part in a two-hour sit-in outside the co-district commissioner's office at ...

In Assam, such deaths are especially common in March and April when hundreds of mushrooms dot the blue-green fields of the state's famed tea gardens. And the victims are almost always the poor ...

The tiny courtyard of tea-garden worker Bilchand Bawri's house in Assam’s Koilamari tea estate turns into a makeshift school every day at 4 pm. Around 15 children, aged between five and 13 ...

Growers of world-famous Assam tea are encroaching into forests, fuelling a conflict between elephants and humans, locals and authorities in the Indian state have said. Officials blame small-scale ...

This has been a long-standing demand of Assam's tea tribe organisations. The tea tribes in Assam hold an OBC status but have been seeking ST status, alongside five other indigenous communities ...

Senior advocate Nalin Kohli, representing the state, conveyed the commitment to the bench stating that an affidavit detailing ...

The issue was brought to attention by Joydeep Phukan, Secretary of TRA Tocklai, who highlighted that reduced contributions from the tea industry (by 50%) and the capping of funds by the Tea Board have ...

Experiments conducted in TTRI's advanced laboratories have focused on increasing the population of reduviid bugs, which are natural predators of harmful tea pests, including the notorious looper ...