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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicGems and jewellery trade

Topic: Gems and jewellery trade

‘We are afraid to stock silver now’ — How soaring prices froze Gujarat’s trade

Silver prices jumped nearly 160% in 2025, disrupting payments, manufacturing and credit chains across Rajkot’s jewellery industry.

1 year of India-UAE economic pact: High growth for gems & auto exports but iron & steel products see decline

According to commerce ministry data, exports to UAE have grown at faster pace than total exports since Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) came into force on 1 May, 2022.

Inaction in gem & jewellery sector costs tax dept losses worth Rs 38,449 cr, says CAG report

The group, operating in the Gems and Jewellery sector, has indulged in the malpractice of mis-invoicing and over-invoicing. It allegedly controls 20 entities based out of Hong Kong and UAE.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.