Monday, March 2, 2026
Gems and Jewellery

Gems and Jewellery

News and analysis for Gem and Jewellery Industry

Bakul Limbasiya focusses on becoming the largest enabler for lab grown diamonds in India While it is unanimously agreed that the potential of lab grown diamonds is enormous and will generate forex revenues, the one question asked often is about...
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...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/when-will-the-budget-provisions-actually-liberate-this-yellow-metal-2507939.html Budget 2018 and gold -- a long way to go yet To understand how significant the provisions of the Budget are, one must go back in the past where gold was largely been treated only as a commodity – albeit...
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...
Mathurbhai Savani – New vision from an old diamond player Mathurbhai Savani, one of the older players in the Indian diamond industry, has been a driving force in the implementation process of the Surat Diamond Bourse. Apart from his involvement...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gold-be-made-less-attractive-for-smugglers-en-bhaskar/1101981 Can the government make gold a cleaner, more profitable, business in India? — By RN Bhaskar | Jul 13, 2017 07:16 am Listen carefully to the words that are constantly being uttered by government spokesmen. They talk about driving black-marketeers to the ground....
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...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/this-is-how-government-can-clean-up-gold-trade-and-make-it-both-healthy-profitable-2327393.html Gold - III : Three steps which can clean up the gold trade in India (part-I can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/india-loves-gold1/; and part II at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/duties-taxes-corruption-government-abets-smuggling-gold/) Rn bhaskar Jul 17, 2017 02:40 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com The need for a fresh approach...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-the-inr-falls-it-is-easy-to-blame-gold-writes-rn-bhaskar A weak INR and growing CAD are a result of poor gold policies By RN Bhaskar The RBI in its recent report (https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx?Id=21137#FN14) states “Gold imports at US$ 2.6 billion in June 2022 were almost half the level of US$ 6.0...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-india-s-huge-crush-on-gold-2020297 India's huge crush on gold It does not really matter whether the outlook for gold is bearish (http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-with-stock-markets-on-boom-bearish-phase-for-gold-not-over-2017007) or even bullish (http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-bulls-won-t-abandon-gold-easily-it-s-only-a-matter-of-time-2018682) . The one fact that cannot be ignored is that Indians love gold, and will keep buying it...