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In 2009, Ramalinga Raju took India’s corporate scene by surprise when he resigned as chairman of Satyam Computer Services, the fourth-largest software exporter at the time

Agriculture and Livestock development CS Mithika Linturi has reiterated the government’s commitment to continuously support the tea industry and leverage on value addition.

• Despite this drop in price, KTDA prices over the same period have been 17 per cent per cent higher than the average Mombasa auction price for all teas. • The average price dropped from USD2.52 for a similar nine-month period in the previous financial year while tea production dropped by 8.6 per cent.