With gold prices rising, consumers are increasingly exchanging old jewellery for hallmarked pieces to ensure purity and better resale value...

18 carat gold is not the purest form of the yellow metal but a lot of people purchase it because of its affordability as it is cheaper than...

BIS: It is very important to check for hallmark of gold jewellery while buying them, as if the jewellery has less pure gold or fake gold th...

BIS has conducted major raids on Amazon and Flipkart warehouses to eliminate non-compliant products from e-commerce platforms. Investigatio...

These firms have now written to the government to seek certification for manufacturing units in other Asian nations, a senior government of...

How to check if the gold that you have purchased is pure or not. For this, the Bureau of Indian Standards, a government body, certifies the...

To certify the purity of gold jewellery, BIS does hallmarking on the gold jewellery. BIS hallmarking consists of four components.

The move comes at a time when the government is working to formulate technical regulations, which include safety and quality standards, for...

The norms have been relaxed for filter half masks, surgical face masks and eye protectors by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Earlier,...

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has come out with two separate orders as per which substandard steel it...

The way you buy gold changed from January 15 as hallmarking has now become mandatory. There are four components that you should look for on...

The PMO has set up a committee of secretaries, which has been given six months to differentiate between imports necessary for domestic indu...

The days when you bought jewellery convinced of its purity only to learn later of its being below par on this front may come to an end afte...

After about 15 years of launching a hallmarking scheme for gold jewellery, the govt now plans to give legal recognition through amendment t...

If tests show non-conformity with prescribed standards, government agencies would be empowered to publicize such test results for public co...

Steel makers will now have to produce BIS certified steel items as the Centre has made the certification mandatory from September 12.

The hallmarking of gold, which is voluntary in nature at present, is a purity certification of the precious metal. BIS is the administrativ...