Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the United States for a three-day state visit, has gifted an eco-friendly lab-grown 7.5 carat diamond, placed in Kashmir's exquisite Papier mache box, to......
‘I have a special association with tea’ was how Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an instant connect with the Tamil community members in Dickoya in the tea-growing Central Province of......
In a tough action, the Government on Thursday barred Greenpeace India from receiving foreign funds with immediate effect by suspending its licence for six months and froze all its accounts,......
As a child in British India, Bharati Dutt lived a privileged and sheltered life in an extended joint family of civil servants, doctors, engineers and Gandhians. Between the ages of seven and 11,......
Tea planters and exporters are "extremely worried" over the possible impact on their shipments to Russia, India's second largest buyer of tea, in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Photograph:......
In the shadows of a sliding rupee, India’s knitwear hub Tiruppur is weaving a success story. Photograph: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters While the domestic currency edges closer to the 86 mark......
At 235,000 tonnes per annum, Pakistan is the third largest importer of tea in the world as it can’t grow tea because of adverse climate conditions. India supplies just about a tenth of tea......
After experiencing an 11 per cent contraction in exports in 2023-24 (FY24) due to a dip in exports for 10 consecutive months from April to January, the Tiruppur textile industry is back on track in......
According to estimates, production between January and mid-March declined by about 5.85 million kg compared to the corresponding period last year Darjeeling tea exporters are going through a rough......