TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee was attacked with stones and eggs in West Bengal. He described the incident as 'state-sponsored terrorism'. Ba...

Trinamool Congress workers protested in West Bengal following alleged attacks on party MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee. The party...

Counterfeiters are flooding the Indian market with impure silver, exploiting rising prices and demand. Refiners are urging mandatory hallma...

West Bengal Election 2026 BJP vs TMC: Voting has concluded in West Bengal. The central question is whether Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee h...

New discoveries at Tell el-Farama, ancient Pelusium, unveil a unique circular temple. This 2,200-year-old sanctuary, dedicated to the god P...

The Indian government is considering extending voluntary hallmarking to silver jewellery and bullion to ensure raw material authenticity. A...

The registration of jewellers was made free and valid for lifetime. Hallmark Unique Identification (HUID) based hallmarking portal was laun...

In the first phase, which was rolled out on June 1, 2021, hallmarking of 14, 18 and 22 carat jewellery was made mandatory. At present, out ...

The press release also stated that gold of additional carats 20, 23 and 24 will be allowed for hallmarking. Say, if you buy gold bangles of...

The government has said that hallmarking centres need to be located at the jewellery manufacturing centres only. This move will lead to clo...

Uday Shinde, president, Indian Association of Hallmarking Centres told ET, “In August, the hallmarking centres have been able to hallmark 4...

“The government has said that hallmarking will become mandatory from June 1. So, we too, are coming up with an adequate number of hallmarki...

BIS hallmarking has been made mandatory for gold jewellery of 14, 18 and 22 carat sold from June 1. Failure to comply could attract a penal...

.Currently, gold hallmarking is voluntary in nature. However, it will be made mandatory from June 2021. Gold sold by jewellers will need to...

There are 860 hallmarking centres in the country. Each of these centres can handle 2000 pieces of gold jewellery per day. In FY19, around 4...

In 2015-16, about 370 lakh jewellery pieces weighing 500 tonnes were hallmarked at the 375 BIS-recognised hallmarking centres in the countr...

National certification agency Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) today opened its 51st jewellery hallmarking centre in the country here.