Gold prices showed signs of recovery on March 25, 2026, after a mostly down month. Experts anticipate continued volatility due to geopoliti...

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...

At present, only 30,000 jewellers out of the nearly 300,000 jewellers in the country are BIS certified and are selling hallmark gold.

Surendra Mehta, secretary, India Bullion & Jewellers Association, said they have already sent the proposal to the minister to extend the de...

The deadline jewellers given a year since Jan 15 to register with the Bureau of Indian Standards.

The non hallmarked jewellery is largely sold in small cities and rural areas where consumers are not fully aware of hallmarking and its ben...

The Centre plans to notify the new regulation in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a week’s time, said Anantha Padmanabhan, chairman, A...

An official in BIS’s Delhi headquarters said he was not aware about any such raids.

In FY17, 475 tonnes of gold were hallmarked.

Currently, hallmarking of jewellery is voluntary, with just 20000 of 3 lakh jewellers countrywide having a BIS license, said sources.

Industry believes this will help ensure purity of the metal sold in India.

While the mandatory hallmarking guidelines were approved by the government in 2000, their effective implementation was deferred until now.

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

WGC study found that there are widespread differences in purity and an average under-caratage of anywhere from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.

IAHC suggested that the government hold jewellers as accountable as the certification firm when a jewellery item fails a test of gold purit...