Tag: Tea
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Parimal Shah: One can never get enough out of tea
Parimal Shah, vice president, MK Jokai Agri plantations, gives an interesting glimpse into how the beverage is manufactured.
December 16, 2018 -
Benefits of tea
The beverage has a plethora of bioactive molecules that possess anti-oxidant, antidiabetic, anti-cancer and anti-arthritic properties.
October 26, 2018 -
3 cups of coffee, tea daily may cut stroke risk
Cheer up, drinking upto three cups of coffee or tea a day is safe as well as reduce irregular heartbeat and stroke risk.
April 17, 2018 -
Relax your nerves, mind with chamomile, fennel tea
Treat yourself to warm sips of tea made from ingredients like chamomile, fennel, peppermint and rose.
April 14, 2018 -
High BP patients prefer pill, tea than exercise
People are more likely to choose a daily cup of tea or a pill over exercise as the preferred treatment to control their high blood pressure.
April 9, 2018 -
Teas to sail you through summer
Is tea healthy in summer? Well, scientists say a hot tea will cool you down more than an ice-cold beverage.
March 29, 2018 -
J’guri small tea growers to pay interim wages
The Jalpaiguri District Small Tea Growers’ Association (JDSTA) has finally decided to start paying interim relief of Rs 17.50 to workers in response to an appeal made by the Trinamul Congress-backed trade union, following an order of the state labour department. The state labour department has recently issued an order and asked planters in the …
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March 9, 2018 -
Kenya pips India in tea export to Pak, says Tea Association of India
Pakistan imports a huge amount of tea from Kenya, India’s main rival in the international tea market, mainly due to political reasons and affordable prices, even as planters in Bengal are facing acute problems of cost realization, manpower absenteeism and inability to introduce mechanization to maintain quality of produce. Interacting with a group of reporters, …
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March 6, 2018 -
Hill tea union awaits bonus payment
A day after the state government, in a tripartite meeting in Siliguri, asked planters to pay the second installment of the puja bonus to tea workers in the Hills by 10 March, the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM)-affiliated trade union, the Darjeeling Terrai Dooars Plantation Labour Union (DTDPLU) on Friday said that they would allow …
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February 24, 2018 -
Govt sets 10-March deadline, planters say not possible
State Labour Minister Moloy Ghatak on Thursday asked planters to pay Hill tea workers their pending puja bonus by 10 March. While most trade union leaders claimed that Thursday’s meeting in Siliguri was inconclusive and that the state unilaterally imposed its decisions, planters said they expressed their inability to make payments as of now. The …
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February 23, 2018 -
GNLF union takes back tea protest plans
The Gorkha National Liberation Front’s (GNLF) trade union, the Himalayan Plantation Workers’ Union (HPWU), which had earlier announced gherao of the Darjeeling Tea Association and the Indian Tea Association offices with bonus payment demand, has taken back its programmes, in view of the tripartite meeting scheduled to be held on 22 February in Siliguri. The …
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February 21, 2018 -
Why we need tea, coffee shops
When we look at someone like Mozart who shows his unusual gift at an early age, we think it must be genetic. But studies show that genetics is a relatively small piece of the genius puzzle. Geniuses are neither born nor made. They are grown, according to Eric Weiner, author of the bestselling book The …
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February 15, 2018 -
State govt to open fair price shops in Hill tea gardens
At a time when tea workers in the Hills have started demanding traditional ration and other fringe benefits like firewood in kind and implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in the tea plantations, the state food and supplies department has finally decided to set up Fair Price Shops in each tea garden in the Hills. …
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February 14, 2018 -
Healing the tea gardens, the Chiropractic way
“One photograph started it all,” says Dr Noel J Patterson, a chiropractor, who is leading a 33- member strong team of doctors and volunteers, including 14 fresh graduates, from major cities of Australia, on a mission to tea gardens and villages on river banks in and around Siliguri. Stationed for two weeks at Seva Kendra …
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February 10, 2018 -
Small tea growers wary of min wages
Small tea growers are divided on the implementation of the ‘interim hike’ in the wages for their workers. Though a section of them has agreed to take up the increased remuneration (from the earlier Rs 132.50 to Rs 150) if it is implemented in the organized sector too, another section wants it with certain conditions. …
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February 8, 2018 -
As cold grows, ‘street tea’ keeps K’pong going
Thick fog blankets the area and bone-chilling weather leaves residents of the town shivering, and this, quite contrary to the start of the New Year when tourists and locals alike had likened the weather here to early ‘spring,’ given the bright sunshine and the pleasant weather. And as the mercury plummets to 7 degrees Celsius …
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February 8, 2018 -
Tripartite meeting on issues of tea garden workers on 12 Feb
The state government will hold a tripartite meeting with tea garden owners and unions on 12 February to mitigate the overall problem of the workers. A resolution has been taken for hiking the daily wages of tea garden workers by Rs 17.50. The revised daily wages will now be hiked from Rs 132.50 to Rs …
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February 7, 2018