The tea workers demanded Tk 30,000 in arrears for 20 months in line with the hiked wages that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked tea garden owners to pay in August last year
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday held a meeting with various tea industry stakeholders and discussed the challenges and road ahead for the t
"I didn't think I could come this far," said a beaming Horibol Bonarjee, a student of Moulvibazar Government High School, who passed this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC).
The workers have appealed to President Ruto to direct multinational tea companies to stop using harvesting machines, in keeping with his bottom-up pre-election economic plans, citing massive job losses in the sector