India today sucessfully tested nuclear-capable ballistic missile 'Dhanush' from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal in Odisha. The missile was fired at 11.20 this morning from the ship, off the Odisha coast as part of the training exercise of the Indian Navy.

Our correspondent reports that the Dhanush missile, which has liquid propellant, is the naval version of India’s indigenously developed surface-to-surface ‘Prithvi’ missile system.

It has a range of 350 km. It has a pay-load capacity of 500 kg and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads.

It can hit both sea and shore-based targets. Dhanush, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), was put to trial jointly by a team of scientists and officers from the Navy.

Today’s test launch has been tracked from its take-off to impact point through an integrated network of sophisticated radars and electro-optic instruments for post-mission data analyses. Dhanush has been sucessfully tested on many ealier occasions.