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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicSurat Diamond Bourse

Topic: Surat Diamond Bourse

Inadequate infra, global slowdown, rivalry & politics — Surat Diamond Bourse has rocky start

Nearly seven months after inauguration by PM Modi, grand plans have barely taken shape — hardly any offices have opened & many players who had left Mumbai for Surat have gone back.

PM inaugurates Surat diamond bourse, ‘world’s largest office building’ — ‘example of Modi’s guarantee’

Modi also inaugurated new terminal at Surat airport which will cater to additional load of 1,200 domestic passengers and 600 international passengers during peak hours.

Mumbai to lose some of its sheen as diamond merchants, dazzled by new bourse, plan move to Surat

Till now, Surat has been the diamond manufacturing hub & Mumbai the export base. However, Gujarat's ease of doing business & lower costs, could make Surat Diamond Bourse a hub for both.

8 suicides in 3 months: A Surat diamond industry problem nobody is willing to acknowledge

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Surat’s diamond industry has a suicide problem. Police to bosses, nobody wants to join the dots

At least eight diamond workers in Surat have died by suicide in the past three months with about 15,000 laid off while the industry's losses have increased from 1% to 15-20% annually in the last five years.

Once a Surat diamond heiress, this 9-yr-old is now a Jain nun living in a ‘bubble-like sansaar’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Surat’s new diamond bourse wants Mumbai’s glitter, gets slammed for ‘objectionable’ incentives

Surat Diamond Bourse, currently under construction, is expected to open in 3 or 4 months. It is expected to house nearly 4,400 merchants and employ about 1.5 lakh people.

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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

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Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.