Kalchini: It was mid-day and the one-hour lunch break had just ended at the Malangi Tea Garden in West Bengal’s northern part’s Alipurduar district. Even though the BJP has made inroads in the tea-belt in 2019, the Mamata Banerjee-led government has left no stone unturned to woo the people of this belt in the last five years,” said Gopal Oraon, …
Chairman of Chamong Tea A Lohia said the order would be more significant for the gardens in Dooars and Terai, and not for those in Darjeeling. Kolkata: The Indian Tea Association on Friday hailed the West Bengal government’s decision to allow 15 percent of labour force to work on a rotational basis to cut the old leaves at the gardens. …
When Jamyang Tsering Namgyal of Ladakh gave one of the most passionate, factual and heart-breaking accounts of how Article 370 had kept the people of Ladakh deprived, discriminated against and treated as a second class citizens, he forced people across India and the world to take note. For us here in Darjeeling region, Jamyang wasn’t just describing the pathos of …
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