A solo photography exhibition titled Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh ran from January 19 to 26 at Alliance Française de Dhaka in Dhanmondi. It featured 48 photographs by Faiham Ebna Sharif, a ...

Tea worker Narod Pashi is having a difficult time providing for his four-member family since his company stopped paying wages to thousands of tea workers like him about seven weeks ago. “We are having ...

Tea workers in Bangladesh have continued to strike for higher wages as the price of daily essentials skyrocketed. Since Aug. 9, thousands of workers at 167 tea estates across Bangladesh have been ...

The minimum daily wage of tea pickers in Bangladesh has been increased from BDT 120 (USD 1.26) to BDT 170 (USD 1.80) after tea workers went on strike for about three weeks. They are among the lowest ...

On May 20, 1921, around 30,000 tea labourers left their workplace in Sylhet region and started walking towards Chandpur Meghna Ghat. When they reached there, the then Assamese police opened fire on ...