Surat diamond workers have threatened to strike on March 30 if the Gujarat government fails to address demands, including a 30% salary hike...

Nearly four lakh workers in Surat's LGD industry face wage delays and job uncertainties due to falling prices of lab-grown diamonds, impact...

Cutting and polishing of rough diamonds have seen a decline in Surat following the US sanctions on Russian miner Alrosa, imposed over Russi...

According to the union's rough estimate some 10,000 diamond workers have lost their jobs in the last few months because of production cuts ...

Russian mining giants like Alrosa traditionally accounted for over a third of India's rough diamonds, but supply has all but stopped becaus...

Exports of lab-grown diamonds have increased by 108.27 per cent in FY22 as compared to FY21. The diamond trade has also urged the commerce ...

The US Treasury had slapped sanctions on Alrosa on April 8, potentially cutting off about 30% of the world's supply of rough diamonds.

As a result, in some cases, workers are being deployed for only three days a week. Rough diamond prices had started increasing from July on...

Diamond exporters were expecting them to return after the kharif sowing was over. Before Covid broke out, there were 600,000 workers in Sur...

“Women were steadily coming into diamond cutting and polishing over the last five years. But the flow has increased post-Covid as they want...

“The migrant workers are going to their hometowns to keep their families. They are taking 10 or 15-day breaks and they will definitely retu...

With polished diamond prices going up and demand reviving in China and the United States production is gradually returning to the pre-Covid...

Traditionally, workers in Surat get a fortnight to a month-long holiday for Diwali, said industry executives.

Though the diamond manufacturing units are scheduled to reopen on July 14 after a fortnight of shutdown, traders said the units may not be ...

With diamond units closed in Surat in view of the COVID-19 outbreak, a number of workers employed in these units are leaving the Gujarat ci...

Diamond Workers’ Union (DWU), registered with labour department in Gujarat, has begun to enroll diamond workers as members in a five-month ...

While the bonanza showered by Surat diamond makes headlines, the diamond industry faces a scary reality.