Surat Diamond Bourse: 4500 offices, 70 lakh sq ft area, 130 elevators, 22 km passage...inside the world's largest office buildingToday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Surat Diamond Bourse, the world's largest center for global diamond and jewelry trade. ...
17 Dec, 2023, 11.40 AM IST
Pentagon's 80 years of dominance is over! Surat now home to the world's biggest office buildingThe Surat Diamond Bourse in India has become the world’s largest office building, breaking the title held by the Pentagon for the past 80 y...
19 Jul, 2023, 04.12 PM IST
Surging Covid-19 cases a cause for concern for Surat’s diamond workersThe industry fears another lockdown would impact production and about 20 million migrants who had returned to the diamond hub after restric...
23 Mar, 2021, 05.31 PM IST
How travel curbs are giving Indian diamond merchants the Covid bluesAs Christmas shopping gathers momentum in the West, diamond jewellery stocks are being depleted fast, but there aren't enough rough stones ...
22 Oct, 2020, 07.28 PM IST
Coronavirus: Surat diamond industry stares at Rs 8,000 cr lossThe Surat diamond industry is likely to face a loss of around Rs 8,000 crore in next two months as Hong Kong, which is a major export desti...
05 Feb, 2020, 01.35 PM IST
Labour union soon to be a reality of the diamond industryDiamond Workers’ Union (DWU), registered with labour department in Gujarat, has begun to enroll diamond workers as members in a five-month ...
06 Apr, 2019, 11.30 AM IST
For thousands of diamond traders, a new bourse in Surat promises to add to the shineGiven the scale of the development, the primary challenge was to enable easy navigation for large volumes of people within the trading-time...
29 Mar, 2019, 11.25 AM IST
GST has divided Surat: While textile languishes, diamond trade unaffectedThe 0.25% GST levy on rough diamonds is basically meant for tracking the transit of diamonds rather than mopping up any additional revenue ...
01 Jul, 2018, 09.49 AM IST
What is really going on behind Surat's high-tech, labour-intensive diamond industry?The diamond market is deserted. Young people are now moving into the textile industry. In the meantime, the world’s luxury seekers keep Sur...
01 Oct, 2017, 09.41 AM IST
Gujarat High Court grants bail to Hawala accused Fatta in forgery caseED has started prosecution against Fatta and other 77 accused in a separate cases of multi-crore hawala scam.
05 Mar, 2015, 04.52 PM IST
Surat may turn into diamond trade centre as Narendra Modi's ascent takes shapeAccording to the plan, over the next few weeks, a new entity, Surat Diamond Bourse, would be registered – positioning it against Bharat Dia...
16 May, 2014, 05.06 AM IST
Diamantaires flourish in Saurashtra with 24x7 electricityDiamond units, most of which operate from houses, see hectic activity, thanks to 24x7 power supply ensured by the Jyotigram Yojana.
07 Mar, 2013, 02.49 PM IST
Why world's diamond polishing hub Surat has never seen Brussels-type heistSurat, the world's diamond polishing hub, has never seen a heist of the kind Brussels saw recently. The entire industry works on a system o...
03 Mar, 2013, 08.16 AM IST
- Rosy Blue & Rapaport to invest in Surat
Slowdown blues have not stopped investments in Surat, the diamond destination for the world.
27 Dec, 2008, 02.47 AM IST
Rapaport feels need for cash mkt for diamondsMartin Rapaport, the maverick in world diamond industry, is a rather controversial figure who went against the tide to commoditise diamonds...
27 Dec, 2008, 02.39 AM IST
- 70% diamond units reopen in Surat after Govt intervention
Intervention of the state government seems to have paid off for the diamond units in Surat as around 70 per cent reopened today after nearl...
22 Dec, 2008, 10.23 PM IST
- 70 pc diamond units reopen in Surat after Govt intervention
Intervention of the state government seems to have paid off for diamond units in Surat as around 70 per cent reopened on Monday after nearl...
22 Dec, 2008, 08.58 PM IST