{"id":73549,"date":"2025-08-21T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/india-successfully-tests-nuclear-capable-missile-able-to-reach-deep-into-china"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:26:06","slug":"india-successfully-tests-nuclear-capable-missile-able-to-reach-deep-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73549","title":{"rendered":"India \u2018successfully tests\u2019 nuclear-capable missile able to reach deep into China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agni-5 intermediate-range ballistic missile also part of Narendra Modi\u2019s defence strategy against Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>India has said it successfully test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile that, when operational, should be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to any part of China.<\/p>\n<p>The Agni-5 missile was successfully launched in India\u2019s eastern Odisha state on Wednesday, and authorities said it \u201cvalidated all operational and technical parameters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/india-successfully-tests-nuclear-capable-missile-able-to-reach-deep-into-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agni-5 intermediate-range ballistic missile also part of Narendra Modi\u2019s defence strategy against PakistanIndia has said it successfully test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile that, when operational, should be capable of carrying a nuclear &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,62,441,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73550,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73549\/revisions\/73550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}