2024

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, for the establishment of the ‘BIS Standardization Chair Professor’ at the latter. This initiative formalised on July 3, 2024, marks a significant step towards institutionalising BIS’s collaboration with leading academic and research […]

A group from Bureau of Indian Specification (BIS) Chennai Branch Office carried out an enforcement raid on Wednesday at Hima Aqua Minerals, an unapproved packaged alcohol consumption water bottling plant in Pappan Kuppam Village, Gummidipoondi. Performing on info of a believed violation of BIS Act, 2016, officials seized a total stock of 8,640 one-liter PET containers, 558 two-liter PET bottles, 12,288 500ml

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has unveiled two standards, IS 18590: 2024 and IS 18606: 2024, aiming to enhance the safety of electric vehicles (EV) across various categories. These new regulations, targeting the EV powertrain, ensure stringent safety measures and battery performance criteria. The IS 18590: 2024 and IS 18606: 2024 standards relate specifically to vehicles

The BadgerNet maternity system and Badger Notes online portal and app went live at the trust on Tuesday 18 June 2024, enabling patients to view their maternity records on a mobile phone, tablet or computer. Previously, pregnant people were provided with a paper maternity booklet, but Badger Notes replaces this, allowing easier access and control of pregnancy

The BIS’s new guidelines help India achieve its sustainability and environmental goals. As India works to decrease its carbon footprint and promote green transportation, these standards will help ensure a seamless and safe transition to electric mobility. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has issued two new standards, IS 18590: 2024 and IS 18606: 2024,

Design and fabric waste uses a significant globally problem, demanding long-lasting comprehensive producer obligation (EPR) policies and participation, according to a current record by the Ellen MacArthur Structure, a round economic situation philanthropic. To establish large different fabric collection systems, devoted, persisting, and appropriate financing is important to cover the internet costs of handling all disposed of textiles, not

Essential upgrade relating to Indian Standard appropriate to all existing Licence owners/ New applicants/ suppliers/ importers/ item vendors for the Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products (EC Grade Aluminium Rod produced by Continuous Casting and Rolling) (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2024. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has actually released an amendment to the quality control order titled the “Aluminium and

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film turns out, the underlying commentary of humanity’s problem with trash and plastic waste is the film’s most poignant

The Quality Control Orders (QCOs) for 24 shoes products, containing rubber ‘hawai chappal’, and official and sports shoes will certainly be implemented from July 1, 2023, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Director General Pramod Kumar Tiwari mentioned on Monday.  Tiwari, nevertheless, claimed that the QCOs will absolutely be performed for massive and modest company from July 1, 2023, while for little