India launched its first indigenously built stealth warship as part of its ambition of increasing its maritime influence in the turbulent Indian Ocean, officials have said. AFP Photo The ship, christened INS Shivalik after one of India's Himalayan peaks, has been built at the state-run Mazgoan Dock Ltd. (MDL) near Bombay and is designed to evade interception as part of its stealth capabilities, they said Friday. Warship Shivalik, part of a national naval project to build three stealth ships, will be assigned operational duties when fully armed by December 2005, defence ministry officials said. The remaining two ships will...