11.   Highly-placed defence ministry officials in New Delhi confirmed the military movements to the borders.

12.   He will also hold talks with defence officials at the Pentagon and Vice-President Al Gore at the White House.

13.   However, defence officials earlier expressed concern over a build-up of Tiger cadres in the Trincomalee district following their military reversals elsewhere.

14.   Hungary and Romania on Monday signed a bilateral military cooperation agreement, a Hungarian defence ministry official said here.

15.   However, the move comes on the second day of a suspension of the arms delivery now being conditioned on the removal of a senior Bosnian defence ministry official.

16.   In August a top Ugandan defence ministry official said he would seek authorisation for the army to enter Sudan to attack the LRA rebels.

17.   In October, seven PFP countries will take part in military control exercises in western Hungary under German NATO leadership, defence ministry officials said.

18.   In Indian Kashmir, defence officials said several southern villages in the Poonch district came under mortar attack Saturday morning from Pakistani army units, sparking an Indian retaliation.

19.   In New Delhi, defence ministry officials on Friday accused an Afghan war veteran who has been fighting alongside Kashmiri Moslem guerrillas of setting fire to the shrine.

20.   In July the Russian business daily Kommersant said Indian defence ministry officials were also considering the purchase of a Russian aircraft carrier, the cruiser Admiral Gorshkov.