CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six out of 10 labourers toiling in southern Indian quarries for granite for tiles, fireplaces and kitchen counters around the world are working in ...

Riding on reduced cost of cutting and processing, durability and variety, granite has become the new marble of Rajasthan. Thanks to the new cutting technologies, the state has taken a lead over the ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka may soon have a dedicated R&D centre in Chamarajanagar district for skill training of personnel for granite mining. “We have requested the state government to allot two acres of ...

Bengaluru: Seeking conducive conditions to scale up operations, Federation of Indian Granite and Stone Industry (FIGSI) underlined the importance of having "One Nation..One Mineral..One Policy". The ...

The general slowdown which began during Covid and then the Ukraine war has worsened due to the ongoing Palestine-Israel war. BENGALURU: The raging war between Hamas and Israel is the latest crisis to ...

On February 8, 2024, the Indian Embassy in Baku organized a significant event to promote Indian ceramic tiles and granite among Azerbaijan's leading importers of ceramic tiles and construction ...