** Shares of Apollo Micro Systems Ltd APLL.NS rise as much
as 14.6% to 247.80 rupees, their highest since April 2018
** The defence electronics maker said on Thursday its board
approved issue of warrants convertible into shares worth up to
1.85 bln rupees ($22.46 mln) urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN31D1L7
** Co to issue up to 10.1 mln warrants at a price of 183.30
rupees per share
** More than 2.8 mln shares traded, 4.6 times their 30-day
moving avg of 616,568 shares
** Apollo stock up 31.4% YTD, as of last close
($1 = 82.3760 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Meenakshi Maidas in Bengaluru)
((meenakshi.maidas@thomsonreuters.com;))