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.
Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral contest in Tamil Nadu.
Gold prices plunged and closed below the psychologically-significant Rs 29,000 per 10 grams mark at the local bullion market on Monday on consistent selling by stockists and speculators despite firm global sentiment.
Sukanya Verma shows us some eye-catching instances.
Gold prices plummeted by Rs 170 per ten gram on the bullion market in Mumbai on Thursday and closed at a 6-month low of Rs 5,660.
Samresh Jung and Ronak Pandit broke the Commonwealth Games record in men's 25m Standard Pistol to give India its fifth gold from the shooting range.
Equity investments are fruitful over the very long 20-year term.
After demonetisation, demand jumped as many people with unaccounted money bought the yellow metal.
Gold zoomed by a whopping Rs 215 per ten gram and closed at a new closing high of Rs 9,945 on the bullion market in Mumbai on Friday due to frantic buying after metal's prices touched a 25-year high.
Spot gold on Saturday slipped below the Rs 30,000 per 10 gram level, for the first time since August 17 last year, to close at Rs 29,890 -- down Rs 200 from Wednesday's close -- mainly on weakness in underlying fundamentals.
Globally, gold fell nearly 3 per cent
The old globalisation model is unsustainable. The world economy awaits its new Keynes.
New Delhi can be neutral in the dollar-euro-yen dance, but it has a stake in a stable US currency.
The Finance Ministry has sought comments from stakeholders.
Gold was Rs 28,100 per 10 gm on July 26, 2014.
Gold prices hit one-month lows at the bullion market on Wednesday on sustained selling from stockists and investors in the backdrop of a crash in global market, while silver hit two-and-a-half-year low.
The recently approved government scheme provides both liquidity and returns.
Gold rebounds after 3-day fall on renewed demand, global cues.
Selling pressure gathered momentum after gold in London fell for a fifth session as the dollar strengthened, curbing demand for the metal as an alternative investment. Marketmen said the metal lost its demand among retail customers and moved along with the global trend.
In today's world if the diamond is over one carat in size it will usually come with a certificate from the laboratory specifying the inclusions, color and size. The carat itself is made of one hundred particular parts called points. While it is possible to estimate the weight of a mounted diamond, the lab uses ultrasensitive scales to achieve an exact weight, measured 3 decimal places, although the third decimal place is not usually mentioned at the retail level.
More than ever before, women voters can make or mar a political party's electoral fortunes.
Cricket and the Olympics made for strange bedfellows when the sport featured in its roster for the first and only time in the 1900 edition of the games in Paris.
CBI officials, who questioned former RBI deputy governor H R Khan on Friday, wanted to understand from him why the gold scheme was rushed through without taking into the account the impact and potential misuse.
For India to monetise gold, it is not the institutional depositor that policymakers must target but the average retail depositor.
Whatever it be, an official statement from you clearly defining the extent of the problem, would be in order. At least that in my opinion, sir, would put an end to the uncertainty that is plaguing the financial markets all across the globe. And, sir, as you know, markets abhor uncertainty, for lack of trust is highly corrosive.
'Reports in the Indian media that the ICC is somehow seeking to interfere in or dictate to the IPL are wide off the mark'
Gold prices firmed up further and reclaimed the key psychological Rs 30,000 per 10 grams mark at the domestic bullion market on continued retail buying support amid buoyant overseas sentiment.
The former Union home minister claimed that the provisions in the bill can be misused as the police can arrest and take fingerprints and DNA samples of even those who are taking part in political rallies.
The new pharma policy proposed by Chemicals Minister Ram Vilas Paswan is likely to call for a central mechanism to oversee research and development projects in the country.
Vijay Kumar earned India's a fifth gold medal at the Asian Shooting Championships when he finished on top in the Standard Pistol event in Doha on Friday. However, there was no Olympic Quota place for the country from the event, as it does not feature in the quadrennial extravaganza.
Shot putter Om Prakash and long distance runner Surendra Singh won a gold medal each as Indian athletes bagged two gold, three silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Grand Prix second leg in Kunshan (China), on Wednesday.
Bullion dealers said higher overseas market advices have led traders to stock more gold, leading the metal to end Rs 5 higher at Rs 8,725 per ten gram.
India's judoka Tulika Maan gave her all but came up short against Scotland's Sarah Adlington in the final to settle for a silver medal in the women's 78kg category in the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.
A recent survey by Bureau of Indian Standards in Delhi revealed that there was indeed cheating on the part of jewelers and consumers were getting much lesser value for gold for the amount they pay.
The 42-day break would give Kohli the time to introspect, and rejuvenate his cluttered mind.
Gold prices firm up on global cues.
India's leading 800 metres runner Tintu Luka won the gold medal at Karlstad Grand Prix in Sweden, the first of a series of events planned in preparation for this month's World Championships in South Korea. Tintu, who won a bronze in the Asian Championships at Kobe, Japan, last month, clocked 2:02.58 seconds to finish first.
Gold prices rose by Rs 40 on the bullion market in Mumbai on Monday due to increased demand after a steep rise in the global prices.\n\n\n\n
Antibodies produced by two doses of mRNA vaccines against the original and early variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus wane substantially over time, and offer essentially no protection against Omicron, according to a study that highlights the importance of a booster dose.
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