India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile
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India has test-fired a long-range missile that can carry a nuclear warhead, a pre-scheduled exercise that gains significance following fresh tensions along its disputed border with China.
“The missile will add great value to the defense and strengthen national security to a greater extent” as it can travel more than 5,400 kilometers (3,355 miles), Pralhad Joshi, a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, said in a Twitter post. The Agni-5 ballistic missile was test-fired on Wednesday from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast in eastern India.