So far this year, there have been 76 private equity investments in India
Market regulator Sebi to support stert-ups raise funds.
Posco will have to bid for an iron ore licence to feed its plant.
Sensex falls 117.03 pts to end at 28,883.11; Nifty closes 32.85 pts down at 8,723.70.
India was once the world's third largest iron ore exporter and Goa its biggest exporting state
The BSE Sensex and Nifty fell more than 2 per cent on Tuesday, heading for their biggest daily loss since the midst of the rupee crisis in 2013
India only has 3.5 million workers undergoing skills courses a year, compared with 90 million in China
Restrictions on buying land are among barriers holding up projects worth almost $300 billion
India's long-held position as the world's top diamond polisher is being challenged by soaring output from China.
Modi is keen to restart big projects which are stuck for various reasons.
Increased demand from oil importers for the American currency kept pressure on the rupee
Global investment firm Citigroup is bullish on Indian equity markets.
CLSA says government actions to facilitate investment more important for revival than a token monetary easing.
CLSA expects annual net inflows of $15 billion from domestic investors over the next few years in India.
Jindal Steel and Power Ltd has shelved a $10 billion coal-to-diesel project, its chairman told Reuters, becoming the first big casualty of a court decision to scrap coalfields allocated to private firms since 1993.
Zama, however, said the unions would keep resisting any move that could undermine the position of Coal India.
India will allow locally registered foreign firms to mine and sell coal when commercial mining is permitted as part of the opening up of the nationalised industry after four decades, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup told Reuters.
India's steel imports from China, the world's biggest producer of the alloy, doubled in April-September from a year ago though the country has enough capacity to meet its demand.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to open commercial coal mining to private players is a key step towards bringing order to the country's chaotic power industry and ending the chronic blackouts that impede its economic rise.
Cleaning up India's grubby business climate is top of the agenda for both regulators and the government.
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