Bollywood actors Aamir Khan and Ranbir Kapoor have invested in luxury jewellery brand QWEEN, which is preparing to enter the Indian market with its first experiential stores in early 2026.

Tanishq commemorated India’s ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup victory by gifting gold rings to players, crafted from gold exchanged by households nationwide under its Gold Exchange programme.

The landscape of shopping malls in India is undergoing a significant transformation, with jewellery stores emerging as a pivotal component

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

A reduced import duty will make gold smuggling less attractive and will eventually drive the illegal gold out of the markets.

This is the first showroom of Senco Gold & Diamonds in Chandigarh, and overall eighth D’Signia showroom in the country

The investment has been made by Oman India Joint Investment Fund II (OIJIF II)

The funds will be used for refinancing borrowings, payment of transaction fees, and general corporate purposes

The start-up has unveiled a SaaS platform for the jewellery industry, where stores are able to provide multiple online services, like showcasing their products, buying digital gold, making payments, etc

In her Budget speech, the Finance Minister said that customs duty on cut and polished diamonds and gemstones would be reduced to 5% from the existing 7.5%

The importance of location

This is based on an analysis of 50 CRISIL-rated jewellery retailers, which together account for about half of the revenues of the organised jewellery retail market in India

Credit profiles of organised players to witness gradual recovery over the medium term.

Though export market and large diamantaires in the organised sector may not be impacted much, small and medium players, carrying out local trade and sourcing, are expected to feel the pinch of currency recall exercise, it pointed out.