India ranked among top five accreditation systems in the world: Report"We are proud that India is rated among the top five accrediting systems in the world...We anticipate that India will pave the way for more...
09 Feb, 2023, 08.41 PM IST
US, Canada, Taiwan question Bureau of Indian Standards normsIn a submission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) last week, they also asked India to reinstate full and permanent recognition of resul...
21 Nov, 2022, 11.21 PM IST
IRDAI gives insurers freedom to empanel hospitals for cashless treatmentEarlier, only those network providers which were registered in the Hospital Registry ROHINI maintained by Insurance Information Bureau (IIB...
20 Jul, 2022, 10.07 PM IST
Ramesh Hospitals emerges first JCI accredited hospital in AndhraThe JCI team of expert surveyors from the US have conducted a rigorous on-site survey of Ramesh Hospitals during third week of January to e...
08 Feb, 2020, 10.31 PM IST
Policy to ensure uniform quality, says PaswanPaswan also said the government may make hallmarking of gold jewellery mandatory before Diwali to help consumers get genuine gold jewellery.
13 Sep, 2019, 08.23 AM IST
UGC ‘derecognises’ open courses of 35 universitiesOn Friday, the UGC’s distance education bureau notified that universities not running the same/similar course in regular mode for the past ...
12 Aug, 2018, 11.41 AM IST
Tough quality norms hit imports of Chinese toysThis has hit supply and pushed up retail prices 8-14 per cent, while wholesale prices have risen about 30 per cent, executives said.
16 Oct, 2017, 11.38 PM IST
VC Appa Rao credits faculty, students for Hyderabad Central University ranking in top varsitiesHyderabad Central University VC Appa Rao Podile expressed happiness over the institution being ranked among the best universities in the co...
04 Apr, 2016, 03.51 PM IST
Parliament passes Bureau of Indian Standards ActParliament today passed a bill to replace the 30 year-old Bureau of Indian Standards Act and bring more products like jewellery under the m...
14 Mar, 2016, 06.08 PM IST
Bill to allow government to standardise more goods, services moved in LSA bill to enable the govt to standardise more products, systems and services and establish the BIS as a national body was introduced in the...
07 Aug, 2015, 06.10 PM IST
Government taking steps to create a new bill to boost forensic science researchThe proposed National Forensic Science Standards Bill, 2014, will provide for establishing an office of the ‘Bureau of Forensic Science’ an...
25 Jun, 2015, 07.49 AM IST
Irda plans to give unique identity numbers to hospitalsTo help identify hospitals, the insurance regulator Irda has started a process to provide unique identity numbers to hospitals.
25 Nov, 2013, 06.07 PM IST
- 'Mechanism to certify electronic products to come up by April'
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will affix a sticker on the products tested and services certified by laboratories before it is releas...
05 Jan, 2013, 05.43 PM IST
- PIB starts issuing new electronic accreditation cards
The Press Information Bureau has started issuing new electronic press accreditation card from this week onwards.
06 May, 2008, 10.05 PM IST
- What's good for EU is good for coke
Coca-Cola is banking heavily on the results of a new pesticide residue level test - currently being collated by the Central Science laborat...
12 Aug, 2006, 12.00 AM IST
- Rival lab questions CSE credibility
The credibility of Centre for Science and Environment's testing labs, which detected high levels of pesticide residue in soft drinks, has b...
06 Aug, 2006, 11.31 AM IST
- Bureau of Indian standards strives to match global lines
The Bureau of Indian Standards is striving to align its norms with international ones to ensure larger market for the country's products ab...
19 Sep, 2002, 01.43 PM IST