With gold prices touching new highs, Surat's jewellery manufacturing industry is seeking formal recognition for a more affordable category: 10 karat gold

As a collector, designer, and end-consumer, Nawaz Modi Singhania offers valuable insights into what today’s discerning buyers truly seek — wearability and emotional value, as well as legacy and versatility. Her perspective is a reminder to jewellers that design must balance aesthetics with comfort, and storytelling with substance

The Indian jewellery industry has been pushing for a unified gold pricing system under the "One Nation, One Rate" initiative to eliminate regional pricing disparities. With growing momentum and widespread industry support, the demand for a transparent pricing solution appears to be within reach, finds out Anjana Vaswani

The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) hosted the highly anticipated Dinner with an Icon in Mumbai on 20th February

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget on the Parliament on February 1, 2023. With the approaching central elections, popular consensus on this year’s budget is that it would be growth-oriented, with a focus on infrastructure, inflation, manufacturing and rural economy

Surat city mayor Hemali Boghawala inaugurates Sparkle 2022 at the Surat Indoor Stadium

GJEPC has said it is pleased that the Government considered its recommendation to reduce the customs duty on cut and polished diamonds, gemstones and sawn diamonds

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in Gandhinagar by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel with Gujarat Hira bourse chairman Jayesh Mistry

• Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council congratulated the Tokyo Olympic 2020 champions by giving them conceptualised brooches as a token of appreciation

• This year’s beneficiaries for Jewellers for Hope were Udayan Care and SDA-Diamond Hospital & Medical Research Centre

Retail jewellery players are up in arms against the new hallmarking rules, which they consider unjust and arbitrary

The HUID system should only be made applicable at AHC level and should not be brought to the level of jewellers, says GJC

"From June 1, 2021, it is compulsory for all jewellers selling gold jewellery and artefacts to register with BIS and sell only hallmarked gold jewellery and artefacts in three grades of 14, l8 and 22 carat gold," Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) stated in a notification to jewellers. What are the latest provisions and their repercussions

The recent PMLA notifications issued to the G & J industry had the G & J industry reeling under its pressure and anxiety for sometime; Rohan Shah in conversation with Colin Shah, Chairman GJEPC comes forward to clear the air

India’s economic slowdown which began before the lockdown of 2020, eventually brought the whole economy on its knees. Therefore this budget will have to be truly ground breaking in order to resurrect the Indian economy. Here’s what industry personnel expect of the Union Budget of 2021