Eager to break China’s monopoly on tea, the British were actively seeking alternative sources. In the early 19th century, ...

For generations, women have been the backbone of Assam’s tea industry, enduring harsh conditions, exploitation, and low wages ...

During Question Hour in Parliament, MP Gaurav Gogoi raised grave concerns over the dire healthcare conditions faced by ...

The plant that really flourished in India was a subspecies of the tea plant called Camellia Sinensis Assamica. Assam tea tasted better black than green – the oxidation which blackens the leaf ...

In Assam, two Scottish brothers, Robert and Charles Bruce (both are buried in a Tezpur church), became the first Britishers to discover that tea plants grew wild locally and were consumed by the ...

Mr Tata had a long association with Assam, where the Tata Group had made early investments in the tea industry. The latest had been the ground-breaking Rs 27,000 crore chip assembly plant that is ...