India’s silver market faces purity crisis amid soaring investment demandCounterfeiters are flooding the Indian market with impure silver, exploiting rising prices and demand. Refiners are urging mandatory hallma...
26 May, 2026, 10.35 AM IST
Deepa Jewellers, Cotec Healthcare receive Sebi approval for IPOsDeepa Jewellers, a B2B hallmarked gold jewellery processor based in Hyderabad, and Cotec Healthcare, a pharmaceutical CDMO, both received S...
22 May, 2026, 09.36 PM IST
Jewellery brands rapidly expand footprint in leading mallsJewellery stores are now major anchors in Indian malls, occupying nearly 10% of space. This trend is set to continue, reinforcing jewellery...
14 May, 2026, 05.06 PM IST
Explained: What NSE's Electronic Gold Receipts mean for yellow metal investorsNSE’s Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs) offer investors a regulated and fully digital way to own and trade physical gold without storage or p...
07 May, 2026, 12.33 PM IST
22k gold rate today on Akshaya Tritiya 2026: Check 24k, 22k, 18k gold prices (April 19, 2026) in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and other citiesAkshaya Tritiya, April 19, 2026, is here. This auspicious day is ideal for gold purchases and new beginnings. Families traditionally invest...
19 Apr, 2026, 11.33 AM IST
22k gold rate today ahead of Akshaya Tritiya 2026: Check 24k, 22k, 18k gold prices (April 18, 2026) in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and other citiesGold rate today: Gold prices saw a rise on Saturday, April 18, 2026, as Akshaya Tritiya approaches on April 19, 2026. Consumers are closely...
18 Apr, 2026, 05.33 PM IST
Akshaya Tritiya 2026 date and time: Check city-wise muhurat timings for gold buyingAkshaya Tritiya, a festival believed to bring wealth, sees a surge in gold purchases, with demand often rising a week prior. This year, the...
18 Apr, 2026, 01.01 PM IST
Gold purity check: Will I be compensated if my gold jewellery is found to be of lesser purity?Gold hallmarking is now mandatory to ensure purity. Consumers can verify hallmarked gold using the BIS Care App's HUID feature. Unhallmarke...
08 Oct, 2025, 05.39 PM IST
Mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery expands to 18 more districtsIndia expanded its mandatory gold hallmarking program to 18 more districts, bringing the total to 361. Since launching in June 2021, over 4...
14 Nov, 2024, 08.21 PM IST
How to check purity of gold jewellery? Three signs to check for hallmarkingGold jewellery hallmarking: If you are buying gold jewellery, then it is important to ensure that it is hallmarked. This is because hallmar...
21 Oct, 2024, 01.21 PM IST
Three signs to check for purity of gold of BIS hallmarked jewelleryThe government has not only made hallmarking of gold mandatory but has also revised the symbols of hallmarking to be inscribed on gold. It ...
23 Oct, 2023, 01.17 PM IST
Holding old, un-hallmarked gold jewellery? Here's what you can doIt is mandatory for jewellers to sell only BIS hallmarked gold jewellery with 6 digit HUID number. Further, the hallmarking symbols have be...
20 Oct, 2023, 03.58 PM IST
Gold hallmarking: What are the charges to get gold jewellery hallmarkedThe third phase of the mandatory hallmarking vide Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts (Third Amendment) Order, 2023 came into ...
14 Oct, 2023, 04.07 PM IST
Gold jewellery buyers to get purity hallmark on all types of gold articles from June 1, 2022The new rules for gold hallmarking will help consumers to ensure about the purity of gold at the time of buying. In the recent years, the g...
13 Oct, 2023, 01.20 PM IST
Govt permits 16k-odd jewellers to sell "declared" old gold hallmarked stock till June-end"Provided that if any person had already given declaration as required by the Bureau under sub-section 4 of section 18 of the Bureau of Ind...
31 Mar, 2023, 09.49 PM IST
14 important FAQs answered on gold hallmarkingTwo precious metals, gold and silver, have been brought under the ambit of Hallmarking in India. The BIS website has a list of frequently a...
29 Apr, 2022, 03.37 PM IST
Deadline for mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery extended till June 1 next year: PaswanThe Centre, in November last year, had announced that hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts would be made mandatory across the countr...
27 Jul, 2020, 05.16 PM IST