11.   However, the government was still undecided on whether to lift five other items including remote control devices, binoculars, telescopes and compasses, defence sources said.

12.   Hundreds of elite army commandos launched a pre-dawn attack against a Tamil-Tiger guerrilla base in northern Sri Lanka Thursday, defence sources here said.

13.   In Macedonia, defence ministry sources told AFP the army had raised its level of readiness along the border with Albania, fearing an influx of refugees.

14.   Investment capital will come from foreign firms and the weekly newspaper quoted a defence ministry source as saying several US companies were the front-runners.

15.   India, which successfully tested a surface-to-air missile earlier Sunday, is planning to test launch an enhanced version of an indigenious ballistic missile soon, defence sources said.

16.   Indian defence ministry sources confirmed New Delhi had given advance notice to Islamabad about the war games.

17.   Indian defence sources said Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy machine gun fire from midnight to dawn on Sunday at seven places along the rugged frontier.

18.   Indian defence sources said troops were exchanging heavy machine gun fire Sunday at seven places along the rugged frontier that divides Indian- and Pakistani-held Kashmir.

19.   India will import two submarines from Russia and build two more under German licence while freezing a plan to replace an ageing aircraft carrier, defence sources said Friday.

20.   India will Sunday test-fire a medium-range missile, defence sources said Friday.