The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) does the opposite to Beall's. It reviews new submissions that fulfill the ethical guidelines of open access as well as annually reviews those that are on its list. If your open access journal is on the list - then that means that it has passed the criteria.

Yes, in India UGC is the major governing body for research and academics. It has a long list of predatory journals. You can find in the google in the name of UGC approved journals and rejected journals 2018.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) does the opposite to Beall's. It reviews new submissions that fulfill the ethical guidelines of open access as well as annually reviews those that are on its list. If your open access journal is on the list - then that means that it has passed the criteria.

You can use Think Check and Submit (https://thinkchecksubmit.org/) before submitting your paper to any journal. You can also use Jane Journal Estimator (http://jane.biosemantics.org/). I would have to disagree with Dean here. There are many predatory journals which are listed in DOAJ. For example, OMICS is the largest predatory publishing house and several of their journals are listed in DOAJ. Here is a preprint review that discussed limitations of DOAJ.

Preprint "Blacklists" and "whitelists" to tackle predatory publishing...

Beall's lists ceased to be updated; here are 2 pages that started where Beall left:

https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/

https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/

People from Loyola Marymount Univ. also published a journal evaluation tool:

https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/librarian_pubs/40/

Apart from checking if a given journal is part of a « black list », you can always check its website and generally there are several giveaways. Rutgers University Libraries provides a very useful checklist:

https://libguides.rutgers.edu/c.php?g=644942&p=4519169