Kohinoor
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Kohinoor display gets ‘transparent’ makeover at Tower of London
London: The Kohinoor diamond, claimed by India, will go on display with a new exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday within a “symbol of conquest” setting to try and contextualise…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: IT department raids offices of Kohinoor Group
Hyderabad: Income Tax officials conducted searches at the offices of a prominent real estate company, Kohinoor Group, at Shastripuram King’s Colony. Several teams of the IT department conducted simultaneous searches of the…
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India to wage diplomatic campaign to reclaim Koh-i-Noor diamond from Britain: Report
London: India will wage a diplomatic campaign to reclaim the Koh-i-Noor diamond and thousands of other treasures from Britain in a “reckoning” with the colonial past, the Telegraph UK reported. Officials in…
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UK: Story behind Buckingham Palace forgoing the Kohinoor
London: Buckingham Palace would have been conscious about the potential for controversy around the colonial era Kohinoor diamond claimed by India and averted it becoming a side story of King Charles III…
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Colonial-era file sheds light on Indian jewels in UK’s royal treasury
London: The discovery of a colonial-era file from the archives of the India Office, the then-British government department responsible for its rule over the Indian subcontinent, has shed light on many precious…
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Kohinoor to be cast as ‘symbol of conquest’ in new Tower of London display
London: The controversial colonial-era Kohinoor diamond claimed by India is to be cast as a “symbol of conquest” as part of a new display of Britain’s Crown Jewels at the Tower of…
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Britain’s Queen Consort Camilla chooses crown without Kohinoor for coronation
London: Britain’s Queen Consort, Camilla, has chosen a crown without the controversial colonial era Kohinoor diamond for her coronation ceremony with husband King Charles III at Westminster Abbey in May, Buckingham Palace…
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Jacob Diamond: Tragic story of the man who sold it to Nizam Mahboob Ali Khan
A diamond known as the Jacob Diamond, reportedly bigger than the Kohinoor in its uncut stage, was found lying forgotten in one of the shoes of the Sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir…
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Is Puri Jagannath Temple the final claimant of the Kohinoor?
So many writings have come up on the Kohinoor diamond by contemporary court chroniclers and foreign travellers like Tavernier and Bernier. Many colonial administrators have also given ample information about the esteemed…
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Guntur’s Kollur mine: Story of Kohinoor’s most probable home
Kohinoor changes yet another pair of hands with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, its owner for the last 70 years. King Charles III inherited the world’s most coveted diamond from his…
- India
Odisha body claims ‘Kohinoor’ belongs to Lord Jagannath, seeks its return
Bhubaneswar: A socio-cultural organisation of Odisha has claimed that the Kohinoor diamond belonged to Lord Jagannath, and sought the intervention of President Droupadi Murmu for its return to the historic Puri temple…
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Kohinoor is part of the Golconda diamonds: With the Queen gone, will UK return the jewel to India?
Queen Elizabeth was one of the richest women in the world. Her net worth was estimated to be $ 427 million and she had a huge collection of jewels in her possession.…
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Who will Kohinoor go to now?
London : The longest-serving monarch of the UK, Queen Elizabeth-II died on Thursday aged 96 years, after her seven-decade-long reign and now the precious Kohinoor diamond studded crown will pass on to…
