India has been struggling to control the current account deficit that hit an all-time high of 6.7 percent of GDP in the December quarter.
Two senior ministry officials, who declined to be named, said the aim was to attract more capital flows from wealth funds in West Asian countries.
Earlier, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had said he thought the figure was 262 tonnes.
Overall, merchandise imports rose 10.9 per cent to $41.95 billion.
His officials are working on a series of steps to attract at least $20 billion in new investment to fund the deficit without depleting India's $300 billion in forex reserves.
Will help to reduce current account deficit and restore growth.
Germany plane financier has sued the aviation regulator and the airlines.
Cabinet will take a decision on a conciliation offer from Vodafone.
However, raised prices of its sport-utility vehicles by up to Rs 11,000.
India's policy to subsidise retail prices of fuels such as diesel, which accounts for about 40 per cent of refined fuel consumption, is a major drain on the budget.
As of now, there have been no problems with the aircraft.
The airline, however, has not secured approval from airports to fly again.
The minimum threshold to come under GAAR will be Rs 3 crore.
Kingfisher, which lost its operating licence at the end of 2012 and has not flown since the start of October, is estimated to owe $2.5 billion in debt to banks, staff, vendors and others and is scrabbling to find new investors.
US transportation authorities are launching a review of the Dreamliner, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
The Gulf carrier could pay up to $330 million for a 24 percent stake.
Chidambaram said he expected gold imports to touch $40 billion in the current fiscal year to end-March, down 31 percent from the year-ago bill of $58 billion.
Aviation Minister said that the UB group did not say they are going to give money to the ailing airline.
An estimated 177 million Muslims in India, the largest Muslim minority population in the world, are unable to use Islamic banks because laws covering the sector require banking to be based on interest, which is forbidden in Islam.
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