Read Ad-Free on App

Continue Reading on TOI App

This story is from June 09, 2016

At Rs 501/kg, Assam tea breaks record

| Sovon Manna | TNN | Jun 9, 2016, 15:40 IST

Halmari, the first among Assam varieties to find a place at the H... Read More

KOLKATA: Halmari, the first among Assam varieties to find a place at the Harrods Top Tier Tea Gift Box, on Tuesday created history by breaking the price barrier for CTC (crush, tear and curl) tea. The tea produced on the plush plains of this Upper Assam estate has bettered its own record at least four times in just two years.

In a Kolkata auction, brokered by J Thomas & Co late on Tuesday, nine sacks of Broken Pekoe (BP) CTC tea belonging to Halmari Tea Estate shattered the Rs-500-a-kilogram barrier for CTC tea. CTC caters to the mass market.

Read this story in Telugu.

Top Comment

There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy of the very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of the emptiness of its own theology... A void is made in the heart of Islam which has to be filled up again and again by a mere repetition of the revolution that founded it. There are no sacraments; the only thing that can happen is a sort of apocalypse, as unique as the end of the world; so the apocalypse can only be repeated and the world end again and again. There are no priests; and yet this equality can only breed a multitude if lawless prophets almost as numerous as priests. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer

Read all Post comment

Continue Reading

Popular from City

Follow Us On Social Media

end of article

Trending Stories

More Trending Stories

Visual Stories

More Visual Stories

TOP TRENDS

UP NEXT