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The railways cost the government around $5 billion a year in subsidies and spend 94 per cent of revenues on operating costs.
China will create three new free trade zones modelled on one established a year ago in Shanghai.
The ruble has seen a 47 per cent rebound since it plunged to a record-low 80.10 per dollar on December 16.
Beijing will increase financial support for Chinese companies investing and operating overseas, a Cabinet meet decided.
The legislations could not be passed in the Indian Parliament’s winter session that went into a recess on Tuesday.
Apart from being lowest among BRICS, India’s health expenditure is lower than military expenditure.
China stressed its position of “opposing external forces' attempt to interfere in Egypt's internal affairs in any name”.
The environmental impact study of the project is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
The report discussed on Monday recommends referring North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un to the International Criminal Court.
More than a quarter of the EU’s total gas needs were met by Russian gas, and some 80 per cent of it came via Ukrainian pipelines.