A man sits outside closed jewellery shops at Zaveri Bazar, the centre of India's jewellery trade, in Mumbai, on March 2, 2016
Mumbai (AFP) - Jewellers across gold-loving India started a three-day strike on Wednesday in a bid to force the government to shelve plans for a controversial excise tax announced in this week's budget.
Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday proposed to reintroduce a one-percent levy on some jewellery transactions as he laid out his budget for the financial year 2016-17, angering the industry.
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