Sri Lanka and India will hold joint military exercises in Pune between October 13 - 25.
Officials from the army were quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying, "the aim of the joint training is to exchange the best of military practices of the two countries and build a strong military-to-military relation between the two armies."
"The exercise, the fifth in the series, also aims at developing joint strategies by sharing the expertise of conducting operations, especially in the counter-insurgency and counter terrorism (CI and CT) environment," the army official added.