NYC Mayor Mamdani urges King Charles to return Kohinoor diamond
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he would encourage visiting King Charles III to return the Kohinoor diamond — a 106-carat gem long regarded as a symbol of British colonial plunder of India — reaffirming his anti-colonial stance ahead of a brief encounter with the monarch on Wednesday at the 9/11 Memorial in New York.
Mamdani made the statement before meeting Charles at a ceremony honouring victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, saying: