India's gold imports are rising, prompting industry bodies to suggest ways to curb them. Proposals include recycling household gold and lim...

“There has been a sharp increase in old gold sales following the spurt in prices of the yellow metal. In South India, some are exchanging o...

Refiners, who import impure or dore bars for refining, alleged that there has been a significant rise in smuggled gold in the Indian market...

The rising dore imports should reduced the market share of refined gold-supplying banks such as JPMorgan, ICBC Standard, Scotiabank, UBS, H...

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India on average imports 700-800 tonnes of gold each year. A large part is in the form of London Bullion Market Association certified bulli...

Banks and other nominated agencies import gold bullion at 10%. Now, they will also have to pay 3% IGST on import, taking their cost to 13%.

"Banks prefer to wait and see until after July 1 when GST kicks in," said Harshad Ajmera, Kolkata based bullion dealer. "Till then they are...

Refining activity has shot up 25% after March versus the same time last year, said James Jose, secretary, Association of Gold Refineries an...

Total gold recycled in India during April-June quarter was 23.8 tonnes, down from 24 tonnes a year ago.

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...

A committee has been formed to work on the guideline for introducing the Indian gold standard bar.

India had imported 199 tonnes of gold in the first six months of 2016, which is a 50.49% drop compared with 402 tonnes imported in the corr...

The reduction in imports will not only help ease the government’s current account deficit but also contain the entry of conflict gold.

The duty differential for refining units in nonexcise free area is a meagre 0.47% those operating in excise free zone is enjoying a margin ...

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.