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Arunachal Pradesh has marked its entry on world tea map, and how! If you are tea-lover and want to sip this famous variety of tea from the North-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, then be ready to shell out a bomb. It’s the “Golden Needle” tea variety from Arunachal Pradesh’s Donyi Polo tea estate. According to an IANS report, this tea variety was auctioned at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre (GTAC) for a whopping Rs 40,000 per kg during a pan India auction. 1.1 kg of the “Golden Needle” tea variety was sold to Assam Tea Traders, one of the oldest tea shops in Guwahati. This broke the record created by an Assam tea variety auctioned in July that was sold at Rs 39,001 per kg. The GTAC had then claimed that the price is the highest across the world. The variety was the “Manohari Gold Tea”, which was an orthodox tea variety, fetched Rs. 39,001 during a pan India auction at the GTAC. The tea was sold by Contemporary Brokers and purchased by Saurabh Tea Traders of Guwahati for their...

A dad posted a picture of his toddler drinking tea on Instagram and wrote, "Is Teddy the youngest tea drinker? He had his first mug at around 16 months and hasn't looked back since (he calls it Tea-Tea, which makes my heart explode every time he says it... too cute) When did you start your kids on the brown stuff?" That spurted a chain of responses with many parents sharing how they introduced tea to their little ones quite early. A mother wrote in his post, "Our little boy has been having bottles of tea since he was around 6 months, however, his first taste of tea was around 2 months." This also started a debate, with some parents wanting to know if it's actually safe to introduce tea to kids - caffeine being the biggest culprit. In homeopathy, many practitioners recommend giving kids tea when they are down with flu. They say it helps provide relief from a cough and cold. But modern day practitioners don't really agree. Bangalore-based Dr....