Diamond Jewellery

TMS Ep363: Vodafone Idea, Air India, bank stocks, lab-grown diamonds

Is Vodafone Idea out of the woods? Is Air India turning the corner under new management? Is the selling in bank stocks after Adani group fallout overdone? What are lab-grown diamonds? All answers here

Gem and jewellery exporters on Sunday urged the government to announce support measures like the abolition of import duty on raw material for lab-grown diamonds and jewellery repair policy to promote the sector and boost shipments in the forthcoming Budget. The industry also suggested the introduction of presumptive taxation on diamond sales at special notified zones and the introduction of the proposed DESH bill, which seeks to replace the existing law for special economic zones. Seeking a kind of "diamond package" in the forthcoming Budget, the industry said in light of the high inflation and economic crisis in the US and Europe and frequent lockdowns in China, the exports of diamonds and jobs in Surat have been impacted. The conventional source of rough diamonds across the world faces threats of deposit depletion, which also contribute to the exponential increase in the cost of extraction. Industries have thus found lab-grown diamonds to be a profitable alternative. These lab-gr

Of the roughly 8,000 polishing units in Gujarat city, 15% polish lab-grown diamonds exclusively

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The developments in the Indian market are important since most of the rough diamonds ('roughs' in trade parlance) mined in the world are cut and polished in this country