Making Surat Diamnd Bouse India’s diamond hub -- Mahesh Gadhavi
The Surat Diamond Bourse, estimated to start operations this year, would be India's second diamond trading hub. Spread across 35 acres, it aims to provide state-of-the-art infrastructure to organizations engaged...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-we-trust-but-market-uncertain/1156098
Gold, Germany and India
— By RN Bhaskar | Oct 19, 2017 08:01 am
Gold markets continue to be poised on the tip of uncertainty. There is all round confusion. There is no faith in oil prices – they could fall to as...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-government-can-easily-clean-up-gold-market-in-india/1106479
Just three steps and the govt can clean up the gold market
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 20, 2017 07:04 am
The gold market in India is in a mess. Smuggling continues big time. Seizure of smuggled-in-gold barely accounts for 3%...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/gold-trade-when-cats-begin-chanting-hymns/783251http://www.freepressjournal.in/gold-trade-when-cats-begin-chanting-hymns/783251
Gold trade: When cats begin chanting hymns
On 9 February, the All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) issued its ultimatum to the government that 300 associations of the jewellery trade with over 100,000 shops across the country, would...
Lab grown diamonds are the way to making India even more formidable in diamonds
Surat-based Greenlab Diamonds aspires to create sustainable luxury on the back of lab-grown diamonds. Chairman Mukesh Patel discussed the potential of lab-grown diamonds and some of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/the-world-loves-gold-india-confused-amid-uncertain-economic-situation
India is confused about dealing with gold
RN Bhaskar -- January 16, 2020
In the aftermath of the US armed forces assassinating General Soleimani of Iran, prices of gold spiked. The more the world becomes an uncertain place, the more people...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-gold-mining-an-agenda-for-the-government
Gold mining IV
What the government should do?
RN Bhaskar
When it comes to gold, politicians, government officials, media and the general public can be quite misinformed to the point of hysteria.
Consider how – on 21 February 2020 -- an unsuspecting public...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-blighted-vision-about-gold-mining
Gold mining – part I
Can India have better policies relating to gold mining
RN Bhaskar -- 17 December 2020
Last week, media headlines screamed out information about the ‘theft’ of 100 kg of gold kept in the CBI vaults. An inhouse...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-has-de-beers-bushwhacked-the-kimberly-process-agenda-1543675
Has De Beers bushwhacked the Kimberley Process agenda?
Mon, 16 May 2011-03:21am , Mumbai , dna
The diamond trade is in a flap.
Ostensibly, almost all players in the diamond industry back the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). This is a certification...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jatin-mehta-files-a-usd-5-billion-suit-against-de-beers-stanchart-and-kroll
Indian diamond industry in a tizzy -- Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll
RN Bhaskar
For most market watchers in India, Jatin Mehta is a renegade, an absconder from Indian law (https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/cbi-files-two-fresh-firs-against-absconding-diamantaire-jatin-mehta-207129-2019-06-11) ,...
