Sat, Aug 05, 2023
BIS Director General Pramod Kumar Tiwari emphasised that memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with these esteemed academic institutions will bolster and enrich standards formulation activities.
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Wed, May 17, 2023
Indians will soon get shoes according to their feet size as the government has completed industry consultation. The Bureau of Indian Standards is working to set the standards and is expected to launch them in June.
Fri, Mar 10, 2023
From April 1, each piece of gold jewellery will have a BIS hallmark, purity of gold (for example, 0 22K916), and a 6-digit HUID embossed on it.
Mon, Mar 06, 2023
Hallmarking - a quality certification - has been made mandatory with effect from July 1, 2022 for gold jewellery (14, 18, and 22 carat) and artifacts in 288 districts of the country.
Mon, Jan 23, 2023
BIS is the National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
Mon, Dec 26, 2022
The November 16 meeting had also decided to form a sub-group to examine the feasibility of a uniform charging port for wearables.
Fri, Jun 17, 2022
BIS standard helps in scaling up the business and enter cross-border markets.
Sat, Mar 19, 2022
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will increase its activities to promote its various quality norms through engagement organisations and NGOs.
Wed, Feb 16, 2022
The ambit of mandatory hallmarking could be widened to 28 more districts, Zee Business has learn through sources. After this, hallmarking is expected to be made mandatory in 76 more districts over the next three months. Currently hallmarking is mandatory in 256 districts in India.
Tue, Jan 18, 2022
Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) has conducted raids on Metro Cash and Carry stores located in Gujarat and Maharashtra. The raids were conducted under a special operation as the stores were selling non-ISI marked toys
Sun, Jan 16, 2022
In a raid by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), huge quantity of uncertified toys confiscated in Mumbai.
Tue, Nov 30, 2021
Government is all set to make jewellery hallmarking compulsory from tomorrow in 256 districts for the Jewellery sellers. How is the preparation on ground? How will you recognize hallmarked jewellery? Zee Business' Commodity Editor Mrituenjay Jha spoke to top expert Prithviraj Kothari, President of IBJA. Here is what Kothari suggested in the Commodity Superfast episode.
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
Toy manufacturers, industry bodies like FICCI, TAITMA as well as National Institute of Design, testing laboratories among others participated in the discussion.
Wed, Oct 27, 2021
Selling of sub-standard helmets, pressure cookers, and cooking gas cylinders can be dangerous, hazardous and risk causing harm to consumers.
Sun, Aug 22, 2021
Hallmarking scheme is turning out to be grand success with more than 1 crore pieces of Jewellery hallmarked in a quick time, Director General Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Pramod Kumar Tiwari said during a press conference while describing about the progress made in the hallmarking scheme in I
Wed, Sep 23, 2020
The Government has launched an online system for issuing Bureau of Indian Standard or BIS certificates to jewellers and hallmarking centres in the wake of a likely increase in the number of applications for the certificate. The system was launched on Monday
Tue, Jul 28, 2020
Many a times it happens when consumers want to check the authenticity of ISI and hallmark quality certified products but don't know how to do it.
Mon, Jul 22, 2019
A team of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Nagpur branch conducted a raid in the premises of Shri Balaji Food & Beverages located at Plot No. 14-15, Khasra No. 92, Beside Baidhanath Farms, Mouza- Shankarpur in the district. During the raid, the firm was found engaged in misuse of BIS Certification mark popularly known as ISI Mark on the product “Packaged Drinking Water (PDW)”, which comes under the mandatory certification scheme of BIS.
Thu, Oct 12, 2017
The government had issued a notification on September 1 which specifies that all imported toys to be tested locally and should comply with the standards prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) only.
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