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Pratap Chakravarty

India's new diamond exchange pips the Pentagon as world's largest office block

Surat Diamond Bourse is designed to hold 67,000 professionals, including cutters, polishers and traders. © Edmund Sumner

A glittering new building that will house India’s mammoth diamond market has grabbed the title of the world’s single largest office block. It comprises nine 15-storey towers that make up some 2 million square metres of floor space.

Pundits predict the Surat Diamond Bourse, which took four years to build as a "city within a city", will help India's domestic diamond industry deflect the impact of the war in Ukraine.

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