The body has been sent for autopsy. SILIGURI: A 45-year-old assistant manager of a tea garden in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district was murdered on Thursday afternoon, FILE PHOTO: A worker ...
The UNESCO-listed Darjeeling Himalayan Railway offers a nostalgic journey through the hills, tea plantations, and charming colonial-era stations. A joy ride from Darjeeling to Ghum in March is ...
Sources estimate that even a mid-sized Darjeeling tea garden would lose up to ₹1 crore if plucking is stopped for a week. “In this context, the decision to close down two gardens is surprising,” said ...
KOLKATA – It accounts for less than half a per cent of India’s total tea production. But this limited crop of Darjeeling tea, grown in the picturesque Eastern Himalayas in the state of West ...
It will displace tea garden and cinchona garden workers who have already been denied rights to their ancestral lands,” Bista said. Bista also pointed out that the Darjeeling hills, Terai ...
Bandana Rai, the president of the organisation, said they launched the protest, demanding that the state revoke the decision as they felt it could affect the future of the tea industry, its workers ...
Nilanjan Bhadra, 45, was found dead on Thursday afternoon inside the tea garden. The body has been sent for autopsy.