Orissa Coast

• Interceptor missile successfully launched off Orissa coast

  As part of its plan to deploy a two-layer ballistic missile defence system, India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile from the Integrated Test Range off Odisha coast.

• Agni-II Prime missile test fired successfully off the coast of Orissa

  Adding teeth to its nuclear deterrence, India today successfully test-fired an advanced variant of nuclear-capable Agni-II ballistic missile with a strike range of 3,000 km from an island off Orissa coast.

• India test fires nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile

  India on Monday test fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable ballistic missile Prithvi-II off the Orissa coast, defence sources said.

• Air-to-air missile 'Astra' tested successfully off the Orissa coast

  India conducted a successful ballistic flight test of indigenously developed Astra - Beyond-Visual-Range Air-to-Air Missile - from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur today."The missile was test-fired around 1032 hrs and the trial was successful," Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) sources said.The missile is envisaged to inter...

• 187 km of Orissa's coast face erosion threat: Study

  Nearly 187 km of Orissa's 480-km-long coastline has been exposed to erosion and a major portion of it identified as accreting or stable, a study says.While 39.3 km (about 8.2 per cent) was identified as high erosion zone, 51.96 km (10.82 per cent) fell under medium erosion zone.The assessment was made in the World Bank-funded Integrated Coastal Zon...

• Orissa: Missing boat located, passengers, crew safe

  A boat with 42 pilgrims, which went missing off Orissa coast on Monday evening, has been located. The passengers and crew are all safe. They had taken shelter in a mangrove forest.The passengers, including 10 women and eight children, were returning from a pilgrimage to a shrine in Bhadrak district. "The boat has been traced by one of the rescue te...

• BRAHMOS cruise missile test-fired from Orissa coast

  India test-fired the 290-km range BRAHMOS cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast as part of trials by the defence forces to fine-tune its capability."It was a user's trial by the defence forces," said a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) official soon after the missile blasted off from a ...

• Agni-I successfully test-fired off Orissa coast

  India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, short range ballistic missile (SRBM) Agni-I on Sunday from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from here off the Orissa coast.

• Nuclear-capable Dhanush, Prithvi II missiles successfully test-fired

  Dhanush and Prithvi-II missiles both nuclear-capable were successfully test fired off Orissa coast on Saturday morning.

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  India's interceptor missile test fails

  The interceptor missile test off the Orissa coast ran into serious trouble on Monday, because co-ordination between Launch Pad 3 and Launch Pad 4 used for the exercise failed.