India today successfully test fired nuclear capable ballistic missile DHANUSH from a naval ship off the Orissa coast. The missile with a range of 350 kilo metres was fired at 1005 hrs this morning by Indian Navy as part of user training exercise. The single-spage ship-based missile was flight-tested in the Bay of Bengal at a spot between Paradip and Puri. Dhanush has a pay load capacity of 750 kilo grams and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear war heads. It can hit both sea and shore-based targets. The missile which has Liquid Propellant is the Naval version of India's indigenously developed surface-to-surface Prithvi missile system. Dhanush was successfully flight-tested on 27th March last year from INS Subhadra in the Bay of Bengal off Orissa coast. Similarly, India also successfully test-fired Prithvi-II missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) of Chandipore in Balasore off Orissa coast today. The missile was test-fired at 10.59 hrs this morning from Launch Complex No.3 of ITR at Chandipore.