GUWAHATI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of small tea growers in Assam will be given land rights for the first time in an attempt to boost production and generate employment, the state ...

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday warned of withdrawing all incentives to tea gardens that fail to cooperate with the state government’s move to provide land rights to garden ...

Before British conquest, Assam was ruled for centuries by the Ahom kingdom. The Ahoms governed through a system that ...

Christian leaders in India’s northeastern state of Assam have cautiously welcomed a proposed amendment to an existing law, promising tea estate workers legal ownership of the land they have been ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Thursday (January 1, 2026), threatened to withdraw all incentives given to tea estate owners if they oppose the move to grant land rights to their workers.

Guwahati, Tea companies have urged the Assam government to address financial and legal implications for estate owners for the implementation of the amended Land Ceiling Act, under which land rights ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], December 28 (ANI): Assam Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Jayanta Mallabaruah approved a series of decisions aimed at strengthening land rights, modernising governance ...

GUWAHATI, India, Sept 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of small tea growers in India's Assam state will be given land rights for the first time in an attempt to boost production and ...