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Karnataka Woman Trampled To Death By Elephant, Rs 15 Lakh Aid Announced
A 29-year-old woman plantation worker was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Hedadalu in this district on Wednesday, officials said.
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Ahead Of Assam Polls, Tea Industry Body Hikes Workers' Wages By Rs 26
The Indian Tea Association on Monday hiked the minimum per day wage of workers by an interim amount of Rs 26. This was after the Gauhati High Court put the onus on raising wages on tea plantation owners. The decision was taken at a meeting of the association's national committee.
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Assam Court Convicts 25 For Killing Of 73-Year-Old Doctor Last Year
A district court in Assam has convicted 25 of 32 people accused of the killing of Dr Deben Dutta, a retired medical professional who was brutally attacked by tea plantation workers in August last year
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Verification Drive For Migrant Workers In Karnataka's Kodagu Plantations
Police in Kodagu district of Karnataka are in the process of verifying the documents of thousands of migrant workers from other states who have come to earn a living in the district's coffee plantations.
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Man Drives Kerala Schoolgirl To Tamil Nadu, Allegedly Murders Her
A teenage girl from Kerala was murdered in a forested area in neighbouring Tamil Nadu allegedly by a man on Tuesday night. The accused, a worker at an automobile service centre, has been arrested and handed over to the Kerala police.
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28 Dead As Rain Batters Kerala, No School, Kochi Airport Shut Till Sunday
Flight operations at Cochin International Airport in Kerala have been stopped till 3 pm on Sunday due to heavy rain, airport officials said today. The water level in Periyar river and a canal near the airport has been rising. At least 28 people have died in the floods since Thursday, the state government said; officials said the number of dead is l...
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Telangana Officer Went To Plant Trees. She Was Thrashed By TRS Workers
A forest officer who was leading preparations for a tree plantation drive in Telangana was left bleeding and injured after she was attacked violently allegedly by workers of the ruling party in the state on Saturday. She has been hospitalised after the attack.
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Maoists Put Up Posters In Kerala's Wayanad Asking For Election Boycott
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Maoists have put up posters and banners asking farmers and plantation workers in Kerala's Mundakkai, a part of Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency from where Congress President Rahul Gandhi is contesting, to boycott the April 23 elections.
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Death Count In Assam Toxic Liquor Tragedy Crosses 143, 200 In Hospital
As many as 45 tea plantation workers died on Sunday, pushing the death count in Assam's worst mass alcohol poisoning case in years beyond 143. At least 200 others - 17 of them critical - are still being treated at hospitals across the state, news agency AFP quoted police as saying.
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120 Assam Tea Garden Workers Dead Due To Toxic Liquor, 350 In Hospital
The number of tea plantation workers who died after consuming toxic illicit liquor in Assam has gone up to 120. More than350 people are in hospital. The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand from drinking illegally produced alcohol, known locally as hooch or country liquor.
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32 Tea Garden Workers Dead After Consuming Toxic Liquor In Assam
At least 32 tea plantation workers, including nine women, died in Assam from drinking toxic illicit liquor, while at least 50 have been admitted to a hospital. Four of them are critically-ill, a doctor said.
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Kerala Plantation Workers Want Minister To Go For Comments Against Stir
Kerala's electricity minister MM Mani is facing a protest by a group of women tea plantation workers in Munnar for his controversial remark that allegedly questioned their morality and character.
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After Days Of Unpaid Labour, Kerala Workers Out Of Ways To Stay Afloat
Selvy did not expect to get paid today. A worker at a tea plantation in Kerala's Kollam district, the 42-year-old mother/father has not been paid for two weeks and does not know how she will she manage her children's school fee.
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World Bank Probe into Tata Tea Project Finds it Failed to Protect Indian Workers
A World Bank investigation into a tea plantation project in India that it jointly finances with tea giant Tata Global Beverages has found that it has failed to tackle alleged abuses of impoverished workers, the group said on Wednesday.
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Assam Tea Workers Await Tribal Status As Congress, BJP Fight For Their Vote
Discontent brews among Assam tea plantation workers over demand for tribal status as they have been promised the same by both the Congress and the BJP.
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Karnataka Woman Trampled To Death By Elephant, Rs 15 Lakh Aid Announced
A 29-year-old woman plantation worker was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Hedadalu in this district on Wednesday, officials said.
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Ahead Of Assam Polls, Tea Industry Body Hikes Workers' Wages By Rs 26
The Indian Tea Association on Monday hiked the minimum per day wage of workers by an interim amount of Rs 26. This was after the Gauhati High Court put the onus on raising wages on tea plantation owners. The decision was taken at a meeting of the association's national committee.
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Assam Court Convicts 25 For Killing Of 73-Year-Old Doctor Last Year
A district court in Assam has convicted 25 of 32 people accused of the killing of Dr Deben Dutta, a retired medical professional who was brutally attacked by tea plantation workers in August last year
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Verification Drive For Migrant Workers In Karnataka's Kodagu Plantations
Police in Kodagu district of Karnataka are in the process of verifying the documents of thousands of migrant workers from other states who have come to earn a living in the district's coffee plantations.
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Man Drives Kerala Schoolgirl To Tamil Nadu, Allegedly Murders Her
A teenage girl from Kerala was murdered in a forested area in neighbouring Tamil Nadu allegedly by a man on Tuesday night. The accused, a worker at an automobile service centre, has been arrested and handed over to the Kerala police.
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28 Dead As Rain Batters Kerala, No School, Kochi Airport Shut Till Sunday
Flight operations at Cochin International Airport in Kerala have been stopped till 3 pm on Sunday due to heavy rain, airport officials said today. The water level in Periyar river and a canal near the airport has been rising. At least 28 people have died in the floods since Thursday, the state government said; officials said the number of dead is l...
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Telangana Officer Went To Plant Trees. She Was Thrashed By TRS Workers
A forest officer who was leading preparations for a tree plantation drive in Telangana was left bleeding and injured after she was attacked violently allegedly by workers of the ruling party in the state on Saturday. She has been hospitalised after the attack.
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Maoists Put Up Posters In Kerala's Wayanad Asking For Election Boycott
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Maoists have put up posters and banners asking farmers and plantation workers in Kerala's Mundakkai, a part of Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency from where Congress President Rahul Gandhi is contesting, to boycott the April 23 elections.
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Death Count In Assam Toxic Liquor Tragedy Crosses 143, 200 In Hospital
As many as 45 tea plantation workers died on Sunday, pushing the death count in Assam's worst mass alcohol poisoning case in years beyond 143. At least 200 others - 17 of them critical - are still being treated at hospitals across the state, news agency AFP quoted police as saying.
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120 Assam Tea Garden Workers Dead Due To Toxic Liquor, 350 In Hospital
The number of tea plantation workers who died after consuming toxic illicit liquor in Assam has gone up to 120. More than350 people are in hospital. The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand from drinking illegally produced alcohol, known locally as hooch or country liquor.
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32 Tea Garden Workers Dead After Consuming Toxic Liquor In Assam
At least 32 tea plantation workers, including nine women, died in Assam from drinking toxic illicit liquor, while at least 50 have been admitted to a hospital. Four of them are critically-ill, a doctor said.
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Kerala Plantation Workers Want Minister To Go For Comments Against Stir
Kerala's electricity minister MM Mani is facing a protest by a group of women tea plantation workers in Munnar for his controversial remark that allegedly questioned their morality and character.
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After Days Of Unpaid Labour, Kerala Workers Out Of Ways To Stay Afloat
Selvy did not expect to get paid today. A worker at a tea plantation in Kerala's Kollam district, the 42-year-old mother/father has not been paid for two weeks and does not know how she will she manage her children's school fee.
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World Bank Probe into Tata Tea Project Finds it Failed to Protect Indian Workers
A World Bank investigation into a tea plantation project in India that it jointly finances with tea giant Tata Global Beverages has found that it has failed to tackle alleged abuses of impoverished workers, the group said on Wednesday.
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Assam Tea Workers Await Tribal Status As Congress, BJP Fight For Their Vote
Discontent brews among Assam tea plantation workers over demand for tribal status as they have been promised the same by both the Congress and the BJP.
