A study in Assam found illegal live-wire fences linked to 92% of verified elephant electrocution cases across two elephant reserves.

The North Eastern Council is pushing to scale up value addition for Meghalaya’s GI-tagged Lakadong Turmeric, with its ...

Crackdown on liquor masks alarming surge in narcotics that has stretched security and health apparatus: NDPS cases rise ...

JK Urbanscapes partners with Minor Hotels to develop a hospitality project in Darjeeling. Kanpur-based real estate developer JK Urbanscapes has partnered with Thai hospitality fir ...

Pruning shears, a pigtail and 12,000 smuggled seedlings redrew world trade. Here are three lessons on hard currency, trade ...

The total geographical area of Assam is 78,438 square kilometres. This includes the Brahmaputra Valley, the Barak Valley, and ...

Though the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 makes it mandatory for tea estate (TE) managements to provide and maintain medical ...

A five-year Assam Forest Department and WWF-India study tracked five elephants across 38,000 GPS locations, mapping seasonal ...

MANCHESTER — The Way of the Tea, a new specialty shop featuring more than 100 varieties of premium loose-leaf teas, herbal ...

Tea farmers in Nandi County are investing in farmer-owned businesses and new markets to secure the future of the crop as low returns, labour shortages and demanding ...

ASSAM: Growing up in an impoverished 11-member family, Tileswar Handique worked as a daily wager earning just Rs 6 a day. A ...

Deep in the tea belt of Assam, where emerald plantations stretch across five districts of northeastern India, a quiet ...