'Dhanush' ballistic missile successfully test-fired

India on Friday successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable ‘Dhanush’ ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km from a naval ship off Odisha coast, defence officials said. The......

India tests nuclear-capable Dhanush missile

India successfully test-fired nuclear capable Dhanush, the naval version of Prithvi short-range ballistic missile, from a warship off Odisha coast on Friday.The indigenously developed naval version......

First navy officer to head India's N-command

Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar will head the Strategic Forces Commandthereby ending the monopoly hitherto of the Indian Air Force over the tri-service defence arm created some four years ago to "manage......

'The retaliation will be within minutes'

Five years after the Pokhran tests shook the subcontinent, rediff.com examines how far India has come along the nuclear road. This is the first of a multipart series. An Indian nuclear retaliation......