{"id":45235,"date":"2018-01-18T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45235"},"modified":"2018-01-18T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:38:07","slug":"india-test-fires-nuclear-capable-ballistic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45235","title":{"rendered":"India test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI Jan 18 (TNS):<\/strong> India test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) \u2018Agni-V\u2019, the Indian Defence Ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Agni-V, believed to be India&#8217;s most advanced ICBM, was fired Thursday morning on Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of the eastern state of Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have successfully launched nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-V today,&#8221; Indian media quoted defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry called the test a &#8220;major boost&#8221; to the country&#8217;s defense capabilities. The Agni-V was last tested on December 26, 2016, which was then described as its fourth and final experimental test.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Agni-V is inducted, India will join an exclusive list of countries with ICBMs (missiles with a range of over 5,000-5,500km) alongside the US, Russia, China, France and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI Jan 18 (TNS): India test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) \u2018Agni-V\u2019, the Indian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The Agni-V, believed to be India&#8217;s most advanced ICBM, was fired Thursday morning on Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of the eastern state of Odisha. &#8220;We have successfully launched nuclear capable ballistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[932,737],"class_list":["post-45235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-international","tag-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45237,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45235\/revisions\/45237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}