The Assam government is in discussions with tea associations to raise the daily wages of tea garden workers, with a decision ...

Assam Finance Minister Ajanta Neog announced plans to raise tea garden workers' wages, target orthodox tea for half of ...

Guwahati, January 16: In a move expected to bring long-awaited security and dignity to thousands of tea garden families, the Assam government will begin granting land rights to tea garden workers in ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Thursday (January 1, 2026), threatened to withdraw all incentives given to tea estate owners if they oppose the move to grant land rights to their workers.

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 ...

Assam's tea sector is calling on the government to provide clearer guidance on the revamped Land Ceiling Act, which allows estate workers to secure housing rights on the land they cultivate. While ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...