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
Modi may bet on old faces and new to boost reforms
India plans to double coal production by 2020
The Prime Minister tends to keep such decisions close to his chest.
'It is quite natural for our farmers to go for rice and cane when both power and water are almost free.'
India orders Greenpeace to shut down over fraud
The whitefly outbreak has intensified a debate over GM crops just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office reviews a proposal to allow farmers to grow GM mustard.
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.
Critics say the crackdown is to muzzle dissent and Rijiju's actions could lead to less foreign aid for projects that fight child marriage, provide clean water in slums and feed pregnant women.
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.
Prime Minister Modi chatted with the workers, enquiring about the place and their welfare and jobs.
This is another blow to Modi's ambitious economic reform agenda that has been stalled by a logjam in parliament
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.
Modi denies the charges and was exonerated in an Indian Supreme Court inquiry in 2012.
About 2 million head of cattle are smuggled into Bangladesh annually.
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