1.   Bangladeshi forwards Mohammad Arman, Imtiaz Ahmed, Rakib Hossain and Alfaz Ahmad harried the Indian defence several times but could not finish.

2.   Fernandes also said the Indian defence establishment was discussing a ground sensor plan involving the installation of a network of electronic sensors in Kashmir to monitor insurgency levels.

3.   He was speaking in Moscow after talks with Indian defence ministry officialK.

4.   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.

5.   In New Delhi, Indian defence ministry spokesman P.K. Bandopadhyay confirmed the intrusion, but said the plane had barely crossed into Indian air space before turning back.

6.   Indian defence experts Wednesday urged the federal government to spend more on the military in the annual federal budget to be announced Friday.

7.   Indian defence officials said Pakistani troops targeted two posts with mortar fire in the Indian zone of the Poonch district late Thursday, to which its army retaliated.

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

9.   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.

10.   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.