In the first phase the yellow metal sold in four metro-Delhi Mumbai Kolkata and Chennai would compulsorily have hallmarking, assuring the purity, while the rest of the country would have to implement the norms in the next few months.India consumes on an average 800 tonnes of gold each year.
Cement import from Pakistan received a jolt when consignments from the neighbouring country was held up at Nhava Sheva port for want of quality clearance.
According to sources in the Bureau of Indian Standards, the onus of providing the transcoders will be on new DTH players. The BIS has also been asked to submit a detailed report on interoperability of DTH set-top boxes to the I &B ministry. The set-top boxes being used to receive services from the existing players, Dish TV and Tata Sky, are not compatible with the new-technology services that will be provided by DTH firms.
Next time, when you drink your favourite black tea, it would come with a quality certification.
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For India to monetise gold, it is not the institutional depositor that policymakers must target but the average retail depositor.
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There was no loss of civil property in the accidents, which occurred from January 2005 up to January 31, 2006, except the accident which took place on December 13, 2005 in which paddy crop was damaged in the open field, he said.
The government has disallowed production by over 200 bottled water plants, including those of popular brands like Bisleri, Kingfisher and Coca-Cola's Kinley, due to violation of revised pesticide norms or unsatisfactory performance.
Nearly 84 per cent of the commonly available bread forms contain cancer-causing chemicals.
Swiss authorities have always maintained that assets held by Indian residents in Switzerland cannot be considered as 'black money' and they actively support India in its fight against tax fraud and evasion.
Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan appealed to people to boycott products from China and also directed officials of his ministry not to procure any Chinese products for day-to-day office use while his ministerial colleague Ramdas Athawale said all restaurants and hotels that sell Chinese food in India should be closed down.
The government on Wednesday cancelled ISI quality licence of one more bottling unit after conducting microbiological tests.
In a swoop on errant bottled drinking water manufacturers, the government has cancelled the ISI quality mark licence of seven plants including three producing the popular Bisleri brand.\n\n
A MIG-21 BIS aircraft piloted by flying officer B Agarwal failed to land at the Bhuj airbase in Gujarat on June 25, 1990 and till date the aircraft has not been traced.
Indian Air Force's 115 Helicopter unit and 26 Squadron, both doing yeoman's services in rescue operations and war have been awarded with the President's Standard award, an official said on Friday.
Ringing Bells has said the manufacturing cost of the phone is about Rs 2,500.
A report by parliamentary standing committee on commerce noted that Indian industry was getting decimated by China dumping its cheap products in India.
A nine day Indo-Russian joint air force exercise concluded at the Halwara Air Force Station in Punjab that saw fighter, helicopter and missile crew of the two countries operating together.
Apple and Samsung are international players and should work as a team with domestic companies to transform India into a global powerhouse: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
While Modi must worry about the electoral backlash of bailing out state-owned banks, China's communist rulers face fewer constraints.
Five of twelve labs lack accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laborataries.
The government is coming up with this new law, replacing the Consumer Protection Act 1986, which will incorporate the revised 2015 UN guidelines on consumer protection.
These unmanned aerial vehicles can fly at high speeds, detect intruders, do aerobatic maneuvers like loops, rolls, spins, and hammerheads effortlessly and communicate with each other intelligently.
The new law will have penal provisions of Rs 50 lakh and five year imprisonment for celebrities promoting sale of items without verifying the quality.
The Directorate of Enforcement is investigating Ringing Bells, the company which has launched smartphone for Rs 251, for alleged contravention of FEMA.
With a loan book of $268 billion, India's retail banking is now ahead of Russia, Malaysia and Mexico but behind China, Brazil and Thailand
Head of central banks from various countries get into a 'Basel huddle' every second month at Basel at the headquarters of the Bank for International Settlement.
The Bureau of Indian Standards has certified 33 hallmarking centres in the country to act as collection and purity testing centres for the gold monetisation scheme.
According to CyberMedia Research, over 7.46 lakh tablets were sold in the January-March 2014 quarter by as many as 30 domestic and international vendors.
Indian jewellery is widely prized for intricacy and craftsmanship.
In 5 years, the average demand for gold has been 895 tonnes annually.
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Non-performing loans in the Chinese banking system stood at RMB 1.27 trillion at the end of 2015.
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