Diamonds
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10 most expensive things ever owned by Indian Royals
Fashion & Lifestyle | July 02, 2025 19:31 ISTOpulence and extravagance at its finest! Take a glimpse into the lavish lives of Indian royals and discover the 10 most expensive things they've ever owned.
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Mumbai: Man with diamonds worth Rs 1.49 crore held at airport
Maharashtra | August 12, 2023 7:18 ISTEarlier, Cochin Customs officials recovered gold, worth around ₹ 85 lakh, from the back latrine of an Indigo Airlines plane.
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Choksi pledged 'lab diamonds' with inflated valuation to get Rs 25 crore loan from IFCI: CBI
India | May 02, 2022 20:03 ISTThe CBI acted on a complaint from Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) Ltd alleging that Choksi had approached it in 2016 seeking Rs 25 crore working capital loan for which he had pledged shares and gold and diamond jewellery.
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Budget 2022: Customs duty on cut and polished diamonds, gems to be reduced to 5 pc
Business | February 01, 2022 14:41 ISTSitharaman began her presentation of Budget 2022 by expressing empathy with those who were affected by the adverse health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Wearing diamond is auspicious for Taurus, Gemini and Libra, know about other zodiac signs
Astrology | January 18, 2022 15:56 ISTDiamond is a strong gemstone that does a lot of benefit to the people of some zodiac signs and is harmful to some. While Taurus, Libra and Gemini people should wear diamonds, Leos should absolutely avoid it. Check out how it is going to impact your life according to your zodiac sign.
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Scientists offer new insights into origin of diamonds in group of meteorites
Science | September 29, 2020 8:35 ISTScientists 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.
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JACKPOT! Labourer finds diamonds worth Rs 35 lakh in Panna mine
August 06, 2020 20:38 ISTWhile 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.
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Book traces India’s tryst with world’s most precious diamonds
India | December 26, 2019 15:01 ISTA new book chronicles how the world's 12 greatest diamonds that emanated from Golconda and Kollur mines in Andhra Pradesh were whisked away by Mughals, Persians, Brits, French, Turks and Russians after centuries of bloody wars, conspiracies and million-dollar deals, and now ensconced in their national treasures. Sanjay Dharwadker's "Diamond In My Palm" goes on to say that ancient India was not only like a golden sparrow but as much a mine of invaluable glittering solitaires.
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World's first diamond-within-diamond found in Russia
World | October 05, 2019 18:53 ISTThe diamond came out of the Nyurba mine in the Siberian region of Yakutia, but it was sorters at the Yakutsk Diamond Trade Enterprise who discovered the nature of the stone and passed it on to the Research and Development Geological Enterprise for analysis.
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India to play active role in evolution of Kimberley Process
Business | June 17, 2019 21:37 ISTDiamonds which were called blood or conflict diamonds have been almost completely excluded from global trade and every rough diamond is accompanied by a certificate confirming its non-conflict origin, and export-import procedures in most of the countries are now subject to rigorous control, Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and KP Chair (India) Alok Vardhan Chaturvedi Monday said.
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Two people arrested in Surat for robbing diamonds worth Rs 17 crore
India | March 17, 2018 20:51 ISTPolice identified the arrested accused as Arjun Pandey and Manvendra Thakur, both hailing from Uttar Pradesh, and added that a third man, Mohit Singh Rana, was still at large.
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The monk who stole the diamond: Thai gardener behind famous heist turns Buddhist monk
Life | March 17, 2016 21:43 ISTThai gardener behind a heist valued at $20 million about three decades ago has become a Buddhist monk.
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Tycoon buys diamonds worth $58 million for 7-yr-old daughter
World | November 12, 2015 18:08 ISTGenava: An exceptionally large blue diamond sold Wednesday for 48.6 million Swiss francs ($48.5 million) - a record price for any jewel at auction, Sotheby's said, culminating two Geneva auctions in which a convicted Hong
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Dawood Ibrahim's latest business interest is 'Blood Diamonds': Intelligence Agency
India | August 30, 2015 23:27 ISTNew Delhi: India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has ventured into a new business. According to Indian intelligence agencies the underworld don has now started the business of conflict diamonds (Blood Diamond).As per a report
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Watch: Kate Middleton dazzles in Hyderabad Nizam diamonds
World | February 13, 2014 6:34 ISTNew Delhi: The Duchess of Cambridge glammed up for her first official night out of the year tonight - with a diamond necklace borrowed from the Queen. Looking stunning in the same midnight green Jenny
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Gems, jewellery exports glitter in October, up 21.8 per cent
December 04, 2013 18:09 ISTNew Delhi: After falling for five months in a row, India's gems and jewellery exports rose by 21.8 per cent year-on-year in October to $3.37 billion boosted by rising demand from western markets ahead of
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Sachet containing Rs 4.5 cr worth diamonds stolen from Mumbai airport
India | May 20, 2013 9:41 ISTMumbai, May 20: A thief has stolen Rs 4.5 crore worth diamonds packed in a sachet from the air cargo terminal of Mumbai international airport on Sunday. In all, 24 sachets containing diamonds were being
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Gold, silver and diamonds donated to Shirdi Sai Baba will be auctioned
India | October 11, 2012 20:13 ISTShirdi, Oct 11: The Saibaba Sansthan (temple trust) in Shirdi is going to auction gold, silver and diamonds donated by the devotees this month. Sansthan's executive officer Kishor More said that there was 280 kg
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Rs 1.5-Cr Diamonds Donated By Unknown Devotee At Tirupati
India | November 26, 2011 14:23 ISTTirupati, Nov 25: As many as 162 precious stones, including diamonds, wrapped in a velvet pouch was found in the hundi of Lord venkateswara at Tirumala tirupati Devasthanam on Wednesday, officials said. The pouch, containing
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American Dog Eats Diamonds At Jewellery Store
World | September 02, 2011 17:39 ISTAlbany, Aug 31: An American dog has become an international sensation for his diamond eating capers.When ten-thousand US dollars worth of the jewel went missing from a Georgia jewellery store the owners suspected it must
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