Ahmedabad: Rajya Sabha MP and diamond tycoon Govind Dholakia opined that the slowdown in the natural diamond industry is due to a 20 to 25% drop in demand. He attributed this decline to buyer confusion and reluctance, as consumers now want to wait a few years before purchasing real diamonds. During the 44th Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Lecture and Book Launch at the Ahmedabad Management Association, environmentalist Kartikeya Vikram Sarabhai asked Dholakia about lab-grown diamonds. Dholakia, Foun...Read More

Mumbai: Shree Ramkrishna Knowledge Foundation (SRKKF), the philanthropic arm of Shree Ramkrishna Exports (SRK), a renowned natural diamond company, hosted the Santokbaa Humanitarian Award ceremony at the Jio World Convention Centre. Cyrus Poonawala, Chairman and Managing Director of Serum Institute of India, Shiv Nadar, education reformer and founder of both HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation, along with social activists and founders of SEARCH Foundation, Dr. Abhay Bang and Dr. Rani Bang were fel...Read More

Surat: The Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) has established a new management committee. A week after Govind Dholakia, Rajya Sabha MP and chairman of Shree Ramkrishna Exports, assumed the position of the new chairman of SDB, Lalji Patel from Dharmanandan Diamonds was appointed as the vice-chairman in the meeting convened on Wednesday. Arvindbhai Shah from Dhanera Diamonds now leads as the president of the new committee, with Nagjibhai Sakariya from HVK International Ltd and Ashesh Doshi from A N Dia...Read More

Gandhinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s national president J P Nadda and three other candidates of the party are declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat today. The three others candidates elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha are Surat based Saurashtra origin diamond baron Govindbhai Dholakia, BJP leader from the Central Gujarat Jasvantsinh Parmar and North Gujarat based BJP Gujarat Other Backward Class(OBC) Morcha chief Mayank Nayak. They are declared elected uno...Read More

Gandhinagar: All four candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Rajya Sabha election filed their nominations today here. Today is the last day of filing nominations. None of opposition parties is going to file nomination due to lack of strength. Four BJP candidates JP Nadda, Govindbhai Dholakia, Jashvantsinh Parmar and Mayank Nayak are therefore going to be declared winner unopposed. The nomination filing took place at Vijay Mahurat of 12.39 pm in presence of Gujarat Chief Minister and Guja...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel, and Saint Shri Rameshbhai Ojha launched the Gujarati edition of the autobiography titled 'Diamonds Are Forever, So Are Morals' by leading businessman and Founder-Chairman of Shri Ramakrishna Exports Private Limited, Govindbhai Dholakia. Govindbhai Dholakia, Arjanbhai Dholakia, and other prominent figures from the fields of industry, literature, and politics were present at the event held at Raj Bhavan, Gandhinagar...Read More

Surat: Diamond baron Govindbhai Dhoaliya is in latest working on another charity project which involves installation of solar panels atop the residences of over 750 martyrs of Indian security forces, out of which 125 are from Gujarat. So far the systems are already installed atop the houses of 150 martyrs. This will result into saving of costs pertaining to electricity bills for families of martyrs. Dholakiya had started this initiative on 15th August last year. The initiative is under the b...Read More

Gandhinagar: Shri Govind Dholakia, Founder of Shree Ramkrishna Exports, a globally renowned and trusted diamond crafting company, visited the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) on October 17, 2022. Shri Dholakia, also fondly known as “Govindkaka”, talked about his life journey that started with hardships-laden days in rural Gujarat to building a 2-billion-dollar diamond manufacturing behemoth in Surat with a starting capital of less than Rs 1000, which ultimately shifted t...Read More

Surat: The book launch of the autobiography of diamond tycoon Govind Dholakia "Diamonds are Forever, so are Morals" took place in Surat on Friday. The book launch took place in the presence of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) former municipal commissioner, former election commissioner, and chancellor of National Sanskrit University, Tirupati N Gopalaswami, ISRO former chairman Kirankumar, city police commissioner Ajaykumar Tomar. Diamond Tycoon Govind Dholakia, is the founder and execut...Read More