Modi government expects cargo traffic at its ports to jump by two-thirds by 2021 as India ramps up exports of goods including cars and other machinery.
Government will start to auction the rights to up to 70 diamond and gold exploration zones to mining companies this year
Labour unions, with a history of hostility towards management, are pushing back on Coal India's plans, fearing modernization and outsourcing will hit jobs.
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in the south, and Rajasthan and Gujarat in the west, are the country's top producers of limestone
India plans to double coal production by 2020
'It is quite natural for our farmers to go for rice and cane when both power and water are almost free.'
India will also launch a sovereign gold bond to lower physical demand.
Rising tensions over eating beef in Hindu-majority India are starting to hit the multi-billion dollar buffalo meat trade.
Nearly two-thirds of India's gold demand comes from rural areas where jewellery is a traditional store of wealth for millions who have no access to the formal banking system.
Nestle India Ltd will focus on growing its dairy, coffee and confectionary businesses, its new boss said
With a plunge in steel prices, ship owners are getting about $3.6 million less for the 25,000 tonnes of recoverable metal.
India is expected to cut imports by a fifth in the fiscal year.
Key to Modi's plan will be the interest rates offered for gold deposits.
Posco will have to bid for an iron ore licence to feed its plant.
India was once the world's third largest iron ore exporter and Goa its biggest exporting state
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.
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.
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