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14 stories for “Standards” · March 2026
Clear filtersVarkala: India’s Entry into the Global Zero Waste VanguardIn celebration of the International Day of Zero Waste (March 30, 2026), Varkala in Kerala has been named as one of the inaugural members of the “20 Cities Towards...
EU Water Policy Update: Tackling the Challenge of Forever ChemicalsIn a major regulatory move to protect public health and the environment, the European Union (EU) has officially added PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Subs...
IQAir's World Air Quality Report 2025, based on PM2.5 levels, named Pakistan the most polluted country, followed by Bangladesh and Tajikistan, with India in sixth place. Among cities, Loni in Uttar Pradesh was the most p...
The Government of India has brought 7 more districts under compulsory gold hallmarking in the sixth phase of the Gold Hallmarking Order. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) implements the scheme to guarantee purity, qua...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released a report titled ‘Delivering Prosperity at Scale: India's Economic Transformation through the SDGs’.It highlights India's progress in economic g...
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has approved lifetime validity for licences issued by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Food businesses will no longer have to renew licences again...
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has withdrawn the 2025 version of the seismic code (IS 1893) following concerns raised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The earlier standard, IS 1893 (Part 1): 20...
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has announced standards for Green Ammonia and Green Methanol under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, to promote trade in green hydrogen derivatives. The standards set el...
The Government of India has notified the country's first standards covering cloud computing, data centre performance and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI).The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) issued them under the Bur...
The Union Government has decided to pause rice fortification under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) following an IIT Kharagpur study.The study found micronutrients in fortified rice degrade over time...
The first phase of development works at Silver Beach in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, has been completed. The beach is being developed as a Blue Flag beach under a pilot project of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and...
A joint team from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) and the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports (JIM&WS) successfully reached the summit of Mount Aconcagua on 22 February 2026. Aconcagua is th...
