On May 10, 1773, royal assent was given to the Tea Act in London, starting a chain of events leading to war between American colonists and British troops within two years. The prime minister Lord ...

The draft tea bill intends to remove archaic or redundant provisions, do away with licences, promote ease of doing business and boost exports from he sector, an official said. The commerce ministry ...

Kolkata: In a gazette order issued on August 23, 2021, the Union ministry of commerce has suspended the operations of Sections 12-16 of the Tea Act, 1953, and its corresponding penal provisions under ...

A recent move by the Union commerce and industry ministry to amend a 68-year-old central act that used to restrict tea cultivation without clearances has caused many in the brew belt to believe that ...

One hundred and eighty-two years after the Assam Tea Company first started commercial production of tea in India, the government is finally moving to amend the archaic Tea Act to try and drag the ...

The High Court has suspended the hearing of a petition challenging sections of the Tea Act and the directorship of the Kenya Tea Development Agency Holdings Ltd (KTDA), pending an appeal over the ...

Kolkata: The Centre is inching towards amending The Tea Act, 1953, to make it more relevant and effective in the current global scenario. The new panel constituted by the Union ministry of commerce ...

16th December 1773: Artist's rendering of the Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, December 16, 1773. A group of Bostonians threw tea into Boston harbour as a protest against the British ...

The Narendra Modi government has decided to dump the decades-old legislation that has governed major cash crops like tea and coffee and introduce new legislation designed to reconstitute the relevant ...

Tea growers have been allowed to amend a petition they filed last year challenging sections of the Tea Act, which they said was unconstitutional. A bench of three judges ruled that the Kenya Tea ...