Small tea growers usher in winds of change in Assam

A green revolution is sweeping Assam, empowering many people for the first time and rejuvenating the state's economy. Small tea gardens now dot the landscape as more and more people turn their backyards into mini tea plantations.

Beautiful stones a balm for letdown

ON LAKE BAIKAL, Russia | We’re now well past the midpoint of this vast freshwater sea. Today’s destination is a place 40 miles farther on to the north and east, where a small stream called the River of Wild Onions, one of Baikal’s more than 300 tributaries, empties into the lake. Victor thinks we may finally find good fishing there.

Theseo set for Main course after Gai's treble

GAI WATERHOUSE and ace jockey Nash Rawiller enjoyed the mud with a treble at Randwick yesterday, with stable heavyweight Theseo roaring back into the winners' list by taking the group 2 Chelmsford Stakes.

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