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.
Gold demand will go up in the second half of this year.
Global gold prices held below $1,200 an ounce this week.
Concern would kick in if imports stay at or over 100 tonnes a month.
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.
Prices of buffaloes and cattle have fallen by 20-30%.
The effect of the beef ban has yet to show up in prices.
Buying had been muted in the past few weeks.
Hindu nationalists in India have stepped up attacks on the country's beef industry, seizing trucks with cattle bound for abattoirs.
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