The Bureau of Indian Standards is studying mandatory hallmarking for silver. This move aims to ensure purity for buyers. Silver hallmarking...

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

The Commonwealth Foundation is facing growing scrutiny after winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize were accused of using artif...

NSE’s Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs) offer investors a regulated and fully digital way to own and trade physical gold without storage or p...

Starting September 1, 2025, India implements HUID-based hallmarking for silver jewellery and articles on a voluntary basis, according to th...

The government is set to launch voluntary hallmarking for silver items from September 1. This move includes a digital ID system for purity ...

The Bureau of Indian Standards under the Department of Consumer Affairs has issued a notification announcing new charges for hallmarking go...

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 bill or invoice of sale of hallmarked jewellery shall indicate separately description of each article, net weight of precious metal, p...

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 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is implementing a mandatory gold hallmarking system—called Hallmarking Unique ID (HUID)—in the country...

The pace of hallmarking has gathered momentum with almost 10 million pieces of jewellery having been hallmarked since it became mandatory o...

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on Thursday launched their latest campaign to create awareness amongst consumers to buy hallmarked gold du...

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.

Consumer affairs ministry intends to make it mandatory for jewellers in metros to have their gold certified in these four cities to begin w...

In a bid to ensure quality of ornaments for common consumers, BIS has so far issued 9,156 licences for gold jewellery and 537 for silver je...

In a move that is welcome, the government has cleared the proposal to make hallmarking of gold compulsory.