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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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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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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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Hard Winter Ahead for Thousands at West Bengal's Tea Gardens
By January, when activity ceases at the tea gardens in north Bengal, 50-year-old Kunji Lohar will be among the thousands of workers who will have no income to live on.
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In West Bengal's Tea Estate Crisis, a World of Worry For a 21-Year-Old
For 21-year-old Supriyanesh Toppo, a second year engineering student, the price of an impasse at the tea garden in West Bengal's Bagrakote, may be an education.
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At West Bengal Tea Garden, Workers Claim Death By Distress
At least six people have died in north Bengal's Bagrakote tea plantation since October, the government says. But since the tea garden went into limbo in April - not abandoned, not shut down and yet not functioning - many more have died, workers say.
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Raising Wages of Plantation Workers Tough: Kerala Minister
Kerala's Labour Minister today said it would be a tough task to raise the daily wages of the state's plantation workers from the present Rs 231 to Rs 500.
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Veteran Leader Achuthanandan Joins Tea Workers Protest in Kerala's Munnar
In a show of solidarity with thousands of women tea estate workers who have been protesting in Munnar, Kerala's opposition leader VS Achuthanandan joined them in a show of solidarity.
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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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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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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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Hard Winter Ahead for Thousands at West Bengal's Tea Gardens
By January, when activity ceases at the tea gardens in north Bengal, 50-year-old Kunji Lohar will be among the thousands of workers who will have no income to live on.
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In West Bengal's Tea Estate Crisis, a World of Worry For a 21-Year-Old
For 21-year-old Supriyanesh Toppo, a second year engineering student, the price of an impasse at the tea garden in West Bengal's Bagrakote, may be an education.
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At West Bengal Tea Garden, Workers Claim Death By Distress
At least six people have died in north Bengal's Bagrakote tea plantation since October, the government says. But since the tea garden went into limbo in April - not abandoned, not shut down and yet not functioning - many more have died, workers say.
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Raising Wages of Plantation Workers Tough: Kerala Minister
Kerala's Labour Minister today said it would be a tough task to raise the daily wages of the state's plantation workers from the present Rs 231 to Rs 500.
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Veteran Leader Achuthanandan Joins Tea Workers Protest in Kerala's Munnar
In a show of solidarity with thousands of women tea estate workers who have been protesting in Munnar, Kerala's opposition leader VS Achuthanandan joined them in a show of solidarity.
