India has a significant role to play in all major global challenges, a top Obama administration official has said.

The chief of the UN human rights watchdog will quizz a Sri Lankan delegation over the controversial allegation by the former army chief that instructions were given by a senior government official to kill the top LTTE leaders and not allow them to surrender during the final stages of the ethnic conflict.

The Centre on Wednesday constituted a five-member expert committee to hold consultations on the “situation in Andhra Pradesh”. The statement did not mention the word "Telangana".

The United Nations (UN) troops have fired warning shots and sprayed tear gas on Haitian quake survivors after a food delivery to hundreds of them spiralled out of control in the capital.