Modi gifts for the Queen: Darjeeling tea, organic honey, Tanchoi stoles...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday presented Queen Elizabeth some photographs taken 54 years ago from her first visit to India in January-February 1961 when she was the chief guest at the......

Tea planters' cup of woes is spilling over

The tea industry, hit by rising costs, falling prices and political unrest in the North Bengal plantations, is especially vulnerable to the COVID-19 lockdown. Boutique teas from Darjeeling, the......

Africa adds flavour to Indian tea firms' profit margins

Production cost in Africa varies between $1 and $2 a kg while in Assam it is $1.9 and in West Bengal over $2 Even as tea companies in India are grappling with lower yields and an unfavourable cost......

Bengal Leads 2013: No-show from India Inc

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was spot-on, when she said at the inauguration of Bengal Leads 2013 that the state should not be compared with Gujarat. On the second day of the investors'......

They earn Rs 5.75 & the tea sells for Rs 25K

Tea grown on the steep slopes of Darjeeling hills, connoisseurs swear, is unlike anywhere else in the world. Epicures use a plethora of adjectives to describe the 'champagne of teas': brisk,......