India today successfully tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile 'Dhanush' from a warship in Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast. It is a naval variant of Prithvi with 350 km range. Defence officials said, the single-stage ship-based missile was flight-tested at around 11.31 am from INS Subhadra ship, 35 km off shore the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near Balasore.'Dhanush' has a payload capacity of 500 kg and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads. It can hit both sea and shore-based targets.Describing the trial as successful, ITR director S P Dash said, it has met all the mission objectives and all the events occurred as expected and also monitored by the range of sensors. It was a text book launch and fantastic mission accomplished.