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.
While India is catching China in motorbike sales, it lags far behind in cars, which use more petrol per journey.
India, the world's fourth-biggest oil consumer, recently offered Saudi Aramco a stake in refineries and petrochemical projects.
Farmer suicides have nearly doubled in the drought-hit Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
India has already pipped Japan as the world's third-largest oil consumer.
Heineken could call a shareholder meeting to vote on his ouster from a company his father built into a family empire
Mallya will now be the Founder Emeritus of USL
Officials from India's biggest private refiner recently visited Iran to chalk out the details for resumption of trade ties with Tehran.
Sahara has ploughed at least Rs 1,500 crore from two of its credit cooperatives into the Aamby Valley resort project
European Union steel prices hit their lowest since 2004
Iran has complained of irregular shipments
Tehran plans to lift exports by 500,000 barrels per day
Government is expected to rely more on divestment proceeds to keep the fiscal deficit in check
Suspicions have swirled for years that many of Sahara's millions of investors are fictitious names
Sahara and its founder Subrata Roy have been under scrutiny for years over its financial products, including for possible money laundering.
The richest Hindu temple in the world could soon come to the rescue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to recycle tonnes of idle gold and cut economy-hurting imports.
IndiGo was set up in 2006 by businessman Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, a former CEO for US Airways Group.
India's fuel demand in September rose at the fastest pace in more than a decade.
Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd is backed by KKR & Co.
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