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Egypt’s Atlantis? Archaeologists discover 2000-year-old lost underwater city with gold, silver and a hidden templeA lost Egyptian city, Thonis-Heracleion, submerged over 2,000 years ago, is yielding spectacular treasures. Archaeologists found gold jewel...- BIS plans phased move towards mandatory silver hallmarkingThe Bureau of Indian Standards is studying mandatory hallmarking for silver. This move aims to ensure purity for buyers. Silver hallmarking...
- 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...
- Silver jewellery HUID hallmarking mandatory now: Here’s how you can check authenticity of your silver itemMandatory Hallmarking Unique Identification (HUID) for silver jewellery is now in effect, ensuring purity and curbing unfair practices. Ove...
- Voluntary-based silver hallmarking under revised rules begins; here’s how you can check silver purityStarting September 1, 2025, India implements HUID-based hallmarking for silver jewellery and articles on a voluntary basis, according to th...
- IBJA asks Bureau of Indian Standards to implement mandatory self-hallmarking of silver products by jewellersIndia Bullion and Jewellers Association requests Bureau of Indian Standards for self-hallmarking. IBJA suggests jewellers assign unique cod...
- Union Minister Pralhad Joshi asks BIS to weigh mandatory hallmarking of silver jewelleryConsumers are urging that the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) make hallmarking for silver jewellery mandatory, stated Minister Pralhad Jos...
- Centre assessing feasibility of mandatory BIS standards on silver: MinisterCurrently BIS hallmarking is mandatory for sale of gold jewellery in the country.
- Buying gold jewellery this Dusshera, Diwali? How to check purity of gold jewellery using BIS appMany individuals buy gold during upcoming festivals, however, they should make sure that they buy the hallmarked jewellery and confirm the ...
- Buying silver jewellery? Know how price is calculated by jeweller, other things to keep in mindBuying of silver jewellery is cheaper than gold jewellery. During the auspicious days such as Akshaya Tritiya or Diwali, many people buy si...
- Govt hikes gold, silver hallmarking charges; here are the details of new chargesThe Bureau of Indian Standards under the Department of Consumer Affairs has issued a notification announcing new charges for hallmarking go...
- 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 ...
- Silver imports in 2023 expected to fall a third to 6,000 tonnes as high prices hit demand"Imports went up in 2022 as demand rose after two years of Covid-19. But now the situation has normalised and imports will come down. But t...
- Consumers must buy only hallmarked jewellery on Dhanteras-Diwali festival: Govt"The bill or invoice of sale of hallmarked jewellery shall indicate separately description of each article, net weight of precious metal, p...
- Indians are fence sitters in massive global silver rallyDemand determines the price of any commodity. But that does not seem to be the case with silver, which has gained nearly 54% to about Rs 73...
- UK redefines treasure to cover bronze, copper as well as gold and silverThe move is one of the biggest changes to the act since it came into effect nearly 25 years ago for more archaeological finds to be protect...
- CIC allows Centre to withhold list of documents, precious material seized during Operation Blue Star"As per records available with this office, 493 terrorists/civilians and 83 Army officials were killed in Golden Temple area in June, 1984,...
- Silver demand soars as price down 19% in 2015“Unlike in the past, consumers see a resale value for silver, whether jewellery, artefacts and investment products such as coins and bars,”...
- Eco-friendly jewellery, an effort of taking accessory design to next levelMaking environmentally sustainable products by using recycled silver is my way of taking accessory design to the next level.
- Over 9,000 hallmark licences issued by BISIn 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...
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