India test-fires multi-target missile

India has successfully test-fired a short-range surface-to-air missile from a mobile launcher on the country's eastern coast of Orissa.

The multi-target Akash missile has a range of twenty-five kilometres and can deliver fifty-five kilograms of explosives.

India has already tested the short-range surface-to-surface Prithvi missile, which is capable of carrying a nuclear or conventional warhead.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service