India says it will hold joint military exercise with China next year. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Mr Vishnu Prakash said the two countries had mutually decided to have the exercise but no such drill is planned for this year. Reacting to media reports that the Sino-Indian joint army exercise had been called off, Mr Prakash in a statement said the next joint military exercise would be held in 2010. In a path breaking move, the two armies held the first ever exercise, named Hand-in-Hand in December 2007 in Kunming province of China, when a 100-strong Indian Army delegation took part in a counter-terrorism exercise. This was followed up with the second exercise last year when India hosted the Chinese military personnel at Belgaum in Karnataka for a counter-terrorism exercise. Souvagya/1101