New York  - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called Friday for expeditious negotiations to enlarge the UN Security Council, where India wants a permanent seat on a par with other nuclear powers.

Singh said the council, currently with 15 members, needs to change to reflect "contemporary realities of the 21st century."

Washington, Sept. 26 : Thursday''s dinner meeting at the White House saw President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh exchanging notes on Afghanistan and reviewing developments in South Asia.

According to Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, there was a discussion on the regional situation. He also said that the situation in the Pakistan was discussed as well, but was not a large part of the discussion.

Washington, Sept. 26 : The dinner hosted by US President George W Bush for visiting Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Thursday, it seems, was very nice and tasty.

Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told the Indian media that the fish served was particularly tasty.

"It was very nice food. Perhaps fish," said Menon

Washington, Sept. 26 (ANI): The current economic crisis bedeviling the United States may have increased the creases on President George W. Bush''s forehead, but there is one man to whom he has turned for solace -- Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

At their meeting inside the Oval Office in the White House, Bush made ita point to mention that Dr. Singh''s presence at the international level, and in particular in the United States, has had a salutary effect on leaders around the world.

Washington/New York, Sept. 26 : India will open two more consulates in the United States as part of a bilateral and diplomatic exercise to enhance existing ties between the two countries.

Disclosing this to the Indian media team accompanying Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on his ten-day visit to the United States and France, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shanker Menon said that the consulates would be opened in Seattle in Chicago and in Atlanta in Georgia.

New York, Sept 26: The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will address the 63rd session of the United National General Assembly after midnight.

In the backdrop of the U. N. agreeing to begin inter-governmental negotiations on UN reforms next year, Dr. Singh’s address will focus on the expansion and reforms in the UN Security Council so that the world body reflects the current global realities.