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  Book traces India’s tryst with world’s most precious diamonds

  India | Dec 26, 2019, 03:01 PM IST

  A 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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  Rio Tinto to produce three million carats of diamonds annually in India

  India | Jan 08, 2014, 09:29 AM IST

  New Delhi: British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation Rio Tinto is planning to produce up to three million carats of diamonds annually from its Bunder deposit in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand region.The Bunder project is Rio