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PM inaugurates Surat Diamond Bourse
18 Dec 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Surat Diamond Bourse, which he claimed to be the world’s largest and the most modern centre for international diamond and jewelry business.
Govt extends mandatory gold hallmarking to 55 more districts
08 Sep 2023
The third phase of implementation of the mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery and gold artifacts started on Friday with the government extending hallmarking facility to 55 more districts.
DRI seizes 32kg of gold smuggled from China
02 Jun 2018
Nirav Modi seeks bankruptcy cover as PNB fraud mounts to Rs12,636 cr
28 Feb 2018
Nirav Modi's Firestar Diamond has filed for bankruptcy protection in US even as Punjab National Bank informed the CBI of another fraud Rs1,251 crore involving Gitanjali Gems
Nirav Modi says PNB’s haste limited his ability to clear dues
20 Feb 2018
Jeweller Nirav Modi, the alleged kingpin of the Rs11,400-crore fraud on Punjab National Bank (PNB), has said PNB's haste has shut the doors on his ability to clear the dues
Vedanta, Adani eye Rs58,900-cr MP diamond mining project
27 Oct 2017
The project, which was abandoned by global miner Rio Tinto last year, has an estimated deposit of over 27 million carats of diamonds
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
