N-capable missile tested

DPA/Bhubaneswar

India yesterday successfully tested a nuclear-capable Agni-IV missile from a base off its eastern coast, officials said. The launch came two days after Pakistan tested its nuclear-capable Hatf-VII Babur missile with a range of 700km. The surface-to-surface missile was fired from a mobile launcher from Wheeler Island in Odisha, and hit a target in the Bay of Bengal with “high accuracy,” Defence Research and Development Organisation spokesman Ravi Kumar Gupta said. The two-stage missile has a range of over 3,500km and can carry a payload of up to 1,000kg. India tested its first nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile, Agni-V, with a range of more than 5,000km, in April this year.