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Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) test fired the land attack version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile at the Pokharan range in Rajasthan on Wednesday, six weeks after its failed test on Jan 20, an official in New Delhi said.

India on Sunday successfully test fired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from a vertical launcher fitted in a moving warship INS Ranvir off the Orissa coast.The missile performed supersonic maneuvering following the exact flight path and homed on to the decommissioned target ship INS Meen.

A British Tornado fighter jet crashed at a major NATO base in southern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, the third aircraft mishap in as many days as foreign forces press their new offensives against the Taliban.

President Pratibha Patil entered the record books by becoming the first woman head of state to fly in a frontline, multi-role fighter jet aircraft as she undertook a 30-minute sortie in a Russian made Sukhoi-30 MKI.

Microsoft and Yahoo are holding talks on a possible search advertising agreement and the chief executives of the two companies have met to discuss the deal, media reported Friday.

President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday entered the record books by becoming the first woman head of state to fly in a frontline, multi-role fighter jet aircraft as she undertook a 30-minute sortie in a Russian made Sukhoi-30 MKI.

India signed Monday a landmark broad-based agreement with its traditional ally Russia in the civil nuclear field that would ensure transfer of technology and uninterrupted supply of uranium fuel to its nuclear reactors.

Home minister P Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha: "We are willing to hold talks with Naxal groups, facilitate their talks with state governments. But the condition is they should formally abjure violence."

India on Monday began the trials of fighter jets being hawked by the world's six top aerospace giants vying for a 12-billion-dollar military contract.