Officials of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Madurai, conducted a search and seizure operation in a jewellery outlet in Iluppur taluk in Pudukottai district on Wednesday and seized 1,643.36 ...

How to identify hallmark gold jewellery: Buying gold jewellery in India is an all-season activity with the demand peaking around Dhanteras and during Akshaya Tritiya. With the price of gold around Rs ...

What is hallmarking in jewellery? The government repeatedly stresses on hallmarking of jewellery since it gives a third-party assurance to consumers on their purity and fitness. “Under the hallmarking ...

All gold jewelry and artifacts sold in India must be hallmarked with a six-digit HUID (Hallmark Unique Identification). The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the government agency responsible for ...

Vijayawada: Sleuths of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Vijayawada, seized Akshaya Hallmark and Testing Centre at Jai Hind Complex after it was found to be operating without mandatory BIS ...

Kochi: The high court on Friday disposed of petitions seeking an extension of the April 1 deadline set by the Union government for ensuring that gold jewellery and artefacts sold to consumers carry a ...

What is Hallmark in gold?The Hallmark symbol certifies the purity of gold articles in accordance with the standards of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), a national body of standards in India. If ...

The Borivali police have arrested a 39-year-old habitual conman from Ulwe for allegedly duping jewellers by selling or mortgaging high-quality, gold-coated fake jewellery stamped with forged hallmark ...

They have already been given over two years to offload the stocks stamped with the old hallmark symbols and to switch to the new regime. Allowing jewellery with both the old as well as the new ...

Meanwhile, an important meeting is going to take place between the central government and the stakeholders this evening (Tuesday, June 15). Now gold jewellery with BIS-Bureau of Indian Standards ...