Hallmarking to be mandatory for gold jewellery and artefacts

Hallmarking for Gold jewellery and artefacts will be mandatory from 15th January 2021.

Notification in this regard will be issued by 15 of January next year, giving a period of one year for implementation.

Jewellers and Retailers will get one year time for clearing their old or existing stock.

More than 26 thousand jewellers have taken the Bureau of Indian Standards, BIS (Hallmarking) registration till now.

MMTC to import 11000 MT of Onions from Turkey

Public sector trading firm MMTC has ordered import of 11,000 metric tonnes of onions from Turkey. This has been done on the directions of the Department of Consumer Affairs. The decision has been taken to moderate the rising prices of onion across the nation.