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India tests nuclear-capable missile Sun Jul 9, 3:39 AM ET India successfully carried out its first test of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometres (2,480 miles), defence officials said. The Agni-III missile was launched on Sunday from Wheeler Island, 180 kilometres northeast of Bhubaneshwar in the eastern state of Orissa, they said on condition of anonymity. In May Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee had said the Agni-III, India's longest-range ballistic missile, was ready but that the country was observing "self-imposed restraint" before testing. Opposition parties criticised the announcement, saying testing was being delayed because of pressure from...

India has test-fired a variant of its home-grown nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile from a test site on its east coast(AFP/File/Raveendran ) India tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile BHUBANESHWAR, India (AFP) - India has test-fired a variant of its home-grown nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile from a test site on its east coast, a defence official said. The surface-to-surface intermediate range Agni-II, with a maximum strike range of 2,500 kilometres (1,560 miles), was fired from a mobile launcher on Wheeler Island off eastern Orissa state, the official said on Sunday. It was India's third test of the Agni-II. The missile was first...