Indian dealers predict diamond price hikes, hotel finds diamond-encrusted false teeth, and other stories on the industry’s radar this week:

• Indian dealers predict diamond price hikes this year. Foreign Policy runs photographs from Surat.

• Hotel finds diamond-encrusted false teeth. Buried alive woman cuts herself free with diamond ring. 

• Eli Avidar returns as managing director of the Israel Diamond Institute. Reuters on diamond manufacturing in Israel.

• Mine strike in Sierra Leone ends.

• Israeli tax authorities say Beny Steinmetz owes $1 billion.

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