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180 year old Assam Tea industry gets its first woman garden managerManju Baruah, 43, is the new manager of Apeejay Tea’s Hilika Tea Estate near Dibrugarh in Upper Assam. The tea leaves are pluck by women, but they are always led by male ‘Sardars’. Now, history has been scripted. STAFF REPORT,
Largest tea garden union of Assam has criticised PM Modi for ignoring the plights of tea growers in this Northeast state, while calling himself a ‘chaiwala’. PM Modi had promised Rs 350 minimum wage during his 2014 campaign. Union has demanded that PM Modi implements his promises.STAFF REPORT, GUWAHATI TIMES
A farmer from Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district has sent a money order of Rs 6 to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to mark his protest against crashing prices of onions and paltry returns. The farmer Shreyas Abhale told PTI Sunday that after selling 2,657 kg onions at the rate of Rs 1
A court in the United Kingdom will decide on Vijay Mallya’s extradition to India on Monday to face charges of financial irregularities running into thousands of crores but the businessman is unlikely to return anytime soon. The 62-year-old former boss of Kingfisher Airlines has been on bail since his arrest on an
