MP: Labourer finds 7.2 carat diamond in Panna mine
India | October 29, 2020 18:22 ISTFortunes smiled on a labourer after he unearthed 7.2 carat diamond at a mine in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, an official said.
Fortunes smiled on a labourer after he unearthed 7.2 carat diamond at a mine in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, an official said.
Despite pandemic, prices of polished diamond are on the rise. This is good news for the Surat diamond industry. Prices of polished gems have surged after a long gap of more than five years.
An extremely rare, "fancy vivid purple-pink internally flawless" diamond is set to go under the hammer next month at a Sotheby's auction. The 14.83-carat diamond could fetch up a whopping $38 million.
With world's largest diamond trading complex coming up in Surat by 2022, many diamond manufacturers are shifting base from Mumbai to this Gujarat city.
Scientists have offered new insights into the origin of diamonds in a group of stony meteorites called ureilites. These diamonds most likely formed by rapid shock transformation from graphite during one or more major impacts into the ureilite parent asteroid in the early solar system.
The Director General of the Indian Coast Guard, K Natarajan informed that there is one loss of life as of now.
The Indian Coast Guard has said oil sheen has been observed astern/backside of the very large crude carrier (VLCC) New Diamond that has been on fire for the past six days. The Coast Guard said oil spill dispersants were sprayed by its Dornier aircraft to neutralise.
MT New Diamond caught fire again while being escorted by the INS Sahyadri. The fully loaded supertanker that was ablaze just a few days ago off the coast of Sri Lanka, the Indian Navy said today. Meanwhile, efforts have been intensified to bring the fire under control.
The fire on oil tanker off the Sri Lanka's coast has been brought under control. Sri Lankan and Indian ships have been dousing the fire on the Motor Tanker (MT) New Diamond vessel since Thursday (Sept 03).
In the final race of the meet, Farah covered 21.330km, thus breaking Haile Gebrselassie's 13-year-old record of 21.285km.
Fire fighting assistance has been sought by the Sri Lankan Navy from the Indian Coast Guard for fire and explosion on-board oil tanker 'MT New Diamond' 37 nautical miles east off Sri Lanka coast.
Neha Kakkar has been sharing videos on the song 'Diamond Da Challa' that have gone viral on the internet. A recent video's popularity in which Neha along with Punjabi singer Parmish Verma and Riyaz Ali has been increasing day by day in which the three of them can be seen walking on the road with swag and soon start dancing.
Diamond polishing industry has suffered a blow due to COVID-19 pandemic. Dinesh Navadiya, Gujarat regional chairman of Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council said, "Compared to last year, the exports have gone down by US$ 3000 Million."
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi began celebrations of its Diamond Jubilee year. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the celebrations through video-conferencing on August 17.
While digging a shallow mine, the labourer, identified only as Subal, found three diamonds with net weight of 7.5 carat, Panna district's diamond officer R K Pandey said.
When Anandilal Kushwaha, a labourer working in Ranipura area of Panna district, went to work on Tuesday, little did he think in his wildest imagination that he would strike diamond, and quite literally so. While working he happened to dig out a 10.69-carat diamond that is priced at a whopping Rs 50 lakh.
A labourer finds a 10.69 carat diamond from a mine in Ranipura area of Panna district. RK Pandey, District Diamond Officer says, 'This is a good quality diamond, it is the 2nd diamond mined from this location.'
Surat Luxury Bus Operators Association president Dinesh Andhan claimed that on an average, 300 buses carrying nearly 6,000 people, mostly diamond industry workers, leave from Surat every day for Saurashtra and north Gujarat, from where these workers had come here in search of work.
With the detection of several positive cases, certain departments of diamond units, including Shivam Jewellers, SRK Empire, Dharmnandan Diamonds, Rinkle Impex, C Dinesh and Co, JB and Brothers, and Royal Diamonds, have been shut, the civic body said in a statement.
After Gujarat government gave few relaxations in lockdown 4.0, diamond industry re-opened.
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