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Serendipity 3, a restaurant in New York’s Manhattan sells the world's most expensive French fries. Along with the regular crisped potatoes and other ingredients, it features 23k edible gold dust. The French fries is priced at $200 and have been innovatively prepared by Joe Calderone, creative chef, and Fredrick Schoen-Kiewert, Corporate Executive Chef. Besides, it is served on a Baccarat crystal Arabesque Plate with Mornay Sauce.

Jewellery maker Pandora has taken a sustainable approach by switching from mined diamonds to lab-made diamonds, the company announced on May 3. The synthetic diamonds would be used in all future designs, and Pandora would release a line of rings, bangles, and earrings. Initial release of the products would be in Britain, followed by other markets. The company would also be using recycled gold and silver from 2025.

To ensure purity standards, the Centre is eyeing to implement mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery from June 1. After implementation, jewellers will be required to register themselves with the Bureau of Indian Standards. Earlier, in November 2019, the government had announced to mandate BIS mark from January 15, 2021 which was deferred citing the pandemic. Now jewellers will be allowed to sell only 14, 18 and 22 carats of gold.

Both men's and women's team from India, on March 21, clinched gold in the 10m air pistol competitions at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, Delhi. The women's squad involving Yashaswini Singh Deswal, Manu Bhaker and Shri Nivetha outplayed Poland's team with 16 shots. Relatedly, the men's trio comprised of Youth Olympics and Asian Games champion Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma and Shahzar Rizvi secured a 17 against… read-more

The villagers of Uthiramerur in Tamil Nadu have found 565 grams of ancient gold during the restoration of an ancient Shiva Temple. The gold has been spotted by them beneath the steps leading to sanctum sanctorum of the temple. However, the police have seized the gold despite being strong opposition from the villagers. Located about 40 km from Kancheepuram, the villagers believe the temple rules back to Chola Period.