The defence ministry said the missiles destroyed the targets with precision at two different ranges.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh complimented the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the maker of the ATGMs, and the Indian Army on the successful trial of the weapon.
"Indigenously developed laser-Guided anti-tank guided missiles were successfully test-fired from Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun by the DRDO and Indian Army," the ministry said.
The test firing of the missiles was carried out at KK Ranges in Ahmednagar with support from Armoured Corps Centre and School.
"The missiles hit with precision and successfully destroyed the targets at two different ranges. Telemetry systems have recorded the satisfactory flight performance of the missiles," the defence ministry said.
"The all-indigenous laser guided ATGM employs a tandem High explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead to defeat explosive reactive armour (ERA) protected armoured vehicles," it said.
The ATGM has been developed with multi-platform launch capability and is currently undergoing technical evaluation trials from 120 mm rifled gun of MBT Arjun.
DRDO Chairman G Satheesh Reddy also congratulated the teams associated with the test firing of ATGMs.
"Kumar has been selected to lead our F-15 fighter aircraft programme and further its business in the US and globally," said Boeing in a statement here.
Kumar said he was upbeat about his new US role to build business for the F-15 programme the world over. The company will, however, expand its local manufacturing, technology and innovations, products and people in the Indian sub-continent, he added.
Boeing will soon announce Kumar's successor in India.
During his five-year stint in India, Kumar advanced the company's business in commercial airplanes, defence, space, security, and global services.
"We launched our engineering and technology centre in Bengaluru during his tenure to drive innovation, scaled up aerospace supply chain and have set up a joint venture in Hyderabad with Tata to make fuselages (main body section) for the Apache attack helicopter," the statement added.
The US-based commercial jetliner maker also finalised the sale of Apache and Chinook choppers to the Indian military and also won additional orders for the P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft under Kumar's leadership.
"I want to thank Kumar for his contribution to our business in India and for developing a stronger aerospace industry ecosystem across the country," said Boeing International President Marc Allen in the statement.
As recently as on September 24, Kumar had met Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in the state capital to finalise the setting up of Boeing's electronics manufacturing and avionics assembly facility at an investment of Rs 1,152 crore.
The facility is expected to be built over 12-18 months, and will create about 2,600 jobs.
With 160 partners and $1-billion sourcing, Boeing employs 2,000 aerospace engineers in India.
To realise the increase in bilateral trade, Modi said the countries could work more closely in the coming years in the fields of new and renewable energy, nuclear technology and defence.
Speaking at the India-Russia Business Summit here, the Russian President said it was a matter of priority for his government to develop business ties with India.
"The mutual trade turnover has been growing sustainably. In 2017, there was a growth of 21 per cent to $9.36 billion. From January to July this year, it gained 20 per cent to reach $6 billion. And we want to achieve $10 billion and more," Putin said in Russian, which was simultaneously translated into English.
He said advancements in technology had made it possible to seek even more volumes of growth and investments.
"We want to grow our mutual trade turnover to $30 billion by 2025, and mutual investments to $15 billion for each country," he said, adding that it was possible only by advancing the industrial cooperation between the two countries to create technological and investment alliances.
Prime Minister Modi said the mutual trade between the two countries had shown a significant improvement in the last two years, with 20 per cent growth in 2017-18 only.
"For our economic and social development, we consider Russia to be our most important partner... Our relationship is expanding in every sector," he said.
"In the last few years, a lot of work has been done in states to promote ease of doing business while encouraging a healthy competition among states. In that respect, we hope to have more dialogue between Russia's provinces and Indian states," the Prime Minister said.
He added that there was also potential for collaboration if Russia became a part of India's campaign towards new and renewable energy.
"Both India and Russia are considered to be friends in the area of nuclear energy. Going beyond sale and purchase of technology, now we can work towards developing technology in India under the Make in India programme... In defence field, we can take our old partnership forward and develop products in India," he said.
Modi said in return, Indian IT and pharmaceutical companies had an opportunity to work in Russia through joint ventures with Russian companies.
"We covered the full range of bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest," Sushma Swaraj said while addressing the media following the meeting.
"We took stock of progress in our bilateral relations," she said.
Noting that both India and Kazakhstan have developed multifaceted cooperation in all areas of bilateral and multilateral relations and are strategic partners since 2009, she said New Delhi seeks to consolidate and further strengthen its friendly relations with the Central Asian nation.
"I discussed with Foreign Minister Abdrakhmanov our interest to partner with Kazakhstan to explore markets for new products, diversifying from the trade in traditional products to inject fresh impetus to the trade between the two countries," Sushma Swaraj said.
"There is immense potential to be tapped in sectors like agricultural products, food processing, pharmaceuticals, energy and chemicals."
Kazakhstan is India's largest trade and investment partner in Central Asia. Bilateral trade between the two countries stood at $642.42 million in 2016-17.
Cumulative investments from India into Kazakhstan and from Kazakhstan to India from 2005 to 2016 amounted to $244 million and $83.09 million respectively, according to figures provided by the Indian External Affairs Ministry.
Sushma Swaraj also said that India has keen interest in improving connectivity with the Central Asian region.
"In December 2017, India acceded to TIR convention and in February 2018, India joined the Ashgabat Agreement," she said.
"The International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is gaining momentum and the member states are working together to popularise the corridor."
The Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR) Convention is a multilateral treaty that seeks to simplify and harmonise the administrative formalities of international transport.
The Ashgabat Agreement is a multimodal transport agreement between India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Oman, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Sushma Swaraj also said that she and Abdrakhmanov expressed their interest to further strengthen defence cooperation between the two sides "based on solid foundation that we have in place".
"Our defence and security sector cooperation has intensified in the last two years," she said.
"Kazakh Armed Forces Unit underwent training on peacekeeping operations in India and presently a mobile training team from the Indian Army is training Kazakh personnel in Almaty."
Pointing out that both countries have growing cooperation in capacity building, Sushma Swaraj said: "Kazakhstan's professionals and students have been attending courses on scholarships in India every year under ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) and ITEC (Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation) programme in a wide range of disciplines."
She also stressed on enhancing people-to-people contact and promoting tourism between the two countries.
Following the delegation-level talks, Sushma Swaraj called on Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev.
"Good exchange of views on strengthening cooperation in trade and investment, ICT, joint film production, tourism and people-to-people contacts," Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted following the meeting.
Sushma Swaraj arrived here on Thursday on the first leg of her three-nation Central Asian tour that will also see her visiting Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
She interacted with members of the around 7,000-strong Indian community in Kazakhstan soon after her arrival.
Modi formally unveiled the commissioning plaque of the INS Kalvari atop the submarine and congratulated and shook hands with the various naval officers.
This is the first conventional submarine to be inducted into the Indian Navy after more than 17 years even as the navy's submarine arm celebrates it golden jubilee this year.
Addressing the august gathering on the momentous occasion, Modi also thanked France for its help and collaboration on developing the project.
"It signifies the further strengthening of the growing strategic ties between India and France in recent times," Modi said.
The Prime Minister said INS Kalvari will provide a significant boost and synergise the country's defence, economic, technical and international powers, along with people power on the global arena.
"The 21st century will belong to Asia and the Indian Ocean will play a crucial and strategic role in ensuring what I call SAGAR - Security And Growth for All in the Region," Modi said.
The submarine, incorporating state-of-the-art features has been built by the Mazagaon Dockyard Ltd under its Project 75, with technological collaboration from DCNS, France.
Also present on the occasion were Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre, French Ambassador to India Alexandre Zeigler and Chief of Naval Staff Sunil Lanba, besides many others.
No casualties were reported.
The incident occurred this morning when the Israeli-made pilotless aircraft took off from the Naval airport here for a routine sortie, he said.
The crash occurred due to technical reasons, he said
"A remotely piloted aircraft 'Searcher' on a routine surveillance mission crashed north of the naval airfield INS Garuda after take-off at 10:25 am," a Defence release said.
"However, there has been no casualty or damage to property. A Board of Inquiry has been constituted to investigate the cause of the accident," it said.
The spokesman said the crash has not caused any damage to the runway.
The missile hit both the targets under different ranges and conditions with very high accuracy as desired by the armed forces, an official statement said.
"With these two successful flight trials, and the flight test conducted earlier in June in the peak of summer, the complete functionality of Nag ATGM along with launcher system NAMICA has been established and marked the successful completion of development trials of Nag Missile," the release said.
The policy will be implemented in a few select segments to begin with -- fighter aircraft, submarines, armoured vehicles and helicopters.
Additional segments may be added in future. One company can be a strategic partner in one segment only.
The DAC is the top decision-making body on defence procurement, chaired by Defence Minister Arun Jaitley.
"The policy aims to develop Indian defence-industrial eco-system through involvement of both major Indian corporates and the micro, small and medium enterprises sector," a Defence Ministry statement said.
The policy will provide a mechanism for a long-term strategic partnership with industry majors through a competitive process, wherein industry partners will tie up with global manufacturers to seek technology transfers and manufacturing knowhow to set up domestic manufacturing infrastructure and supply chains.
The policy will give a boost to the 'Make in India' initiative in the defence sector and set Indian industry on the path to acquire cutting-edge capabilities, it said.
The DAC met on Monday to discuss the issue but could not finalise the model.
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley held a meeting on May 11 with industry representatives to discuss the proposed model.
The strategic partnership model was proposed after a committee led by former Director General (Acquisition) Dhirendra Singh suggested finding strategic partners for high-end defence production.
A task force was constituted by the Defence Ministry under former Defence Research and Development Organisation chief V.K. Aatre which, among other things, suggested finalising only one or two partners for each sector.
As per the committee report, the defence manufacturing sector has been categorised into two groups.
The first group includes the segments of aircraft, helicopters, aero engines, submarines, warships, guns, including artillery guns, armoured vehicles that include tanks. It was suggested that only one partner should be finalised in each segment in this group.
The second group includes metallic material and alloys, non-metallic material, including composites and polymers, and ammunition including smart ammunition, for which the task force said the number of partners can go up to two in each segment.
A chapter on this model was supposed to be there in the new Defence Procurement Procedure released by the then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar last year.
"The Defence Procurement Manual is under revision and the revised manual is expected to be released shortly. This will have many provisions which have been amended to make it easier for industries to take part in the defence manufacturing process," said Brig. Ratan Kumar, Deputy Director General, EM (B), MGO Branch.
Master General of Ordinance (MGO) Branch of the Indian Army is responsible for the operational readiness of the Army's vast array of weapon systems, vehicles, and equipment.
The industries will be facilitated under the revised manual so that they could take part in the indigenisation projects, he said, and added that the revised manual has been trying to address the concerns of the industries.
The industries' main concerns have been the assurance of orders, once they have set up the infrastructure for defence manufacturing, he said on the sidelines of RamicomEast organised jointly by MGO Branch and CII.
According to the army official, such concerns would be addressed in a certain manner wherein long-term support agreement (LTSA) in certain cases is expected to be incorporated in the revised manual.
"The arrangement for LTSA would likely be made in the indigenisation projects in the revised defence procurement manual. Such arrangement which was earlier absent is actively being considered," he said.
Overall in the defence, the indigenisation is currently at 40 per cent and over the next five years, the government agenda is to take the indigenisation up to 60 per cent. The government also wished to take the indigenisation components to 70 per cent in the next 10 years.
The import content is higher in Navy and Air Force while the same for the Army is comparatively less, the official said.
"The Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPA) has a long-term contract with the Russian Defence Ministry for the production of 92 Su-34 strike fighters. We are expecting to receive 16 Su-34fighter-bombers this year," Xinhua news agency quoted Borisov as saying.
Borisov said nine of the aircraft are in the final stage of assembly, and noted that the Su-34 aircraft had proved highly effective in the fight against terrorists in Syria.
It has an enormous modernisation potential, and could be called a new generation aircraft, he said.
The Su-34 entered service in early 2014. It is designed primarily for tactical deployment against ground and naval targets on solo and group missions in daytime and at night, and can operate under adverse weather conditions and in a hostile environment.
According to the data tabled in the lower house, the Indian Army -- the largest of the three Services -- has vacancies for 8,370 officers and 35,174 personnel of other ranks, followed by the Indian Navy, which has vacancies for 1,332 officers and 10,982 personnel of other ranks.
The Indian Air Force has shortage of 29 officers and 9,841 personnel of other ranks.
"The government has taken a number of measures to reduce the shortages. These include sustained image projection, participation in career fairs and exhibitions, and publicity campaign to create awareness among the youth," Bhamre said in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
"The government has taken various steps to make armed forces' jobs attractive, including additional family accommodation through Married Accommodation Project (MAP) and improvement in promotion prospects in the armed forces," the minister said.
Prithvi-II was previously successfully test-fired during night time on February 21 this year from the ITR at Chandipur.
The missile is capable of carrying 500 to 1,000 kilogramme of warheads and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines. The state-of-the-art missile uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory to hit its target, they said.
The missile was randomly chosen from the production stock and the entire launch activities were carried out by the specially-formed Strategic Forces Command of the Army and monitored by the scientists of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of training exercise, they said.
"The missile trajectory was tracked by radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations by the DRDO along the coast of Odisha," the sources said.
The downrange teams on board the ship deployed near the designated impact point in the Bay of Bengal monitored the terminal events and splashdown.
On November 21, 2016, two Prithvi-II missiles were successfully test fired in salvo mode in quick succession from the same base.
Inducted into the Armed forces of the country in 2003, the nine-metre-tall, single-stage liquid-fuelled Prithvi-II is the first missile to have been developed by the DRDO under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, the sources said.
Obama will be accompanied by his wife Michelle Obama and a high level delegation that includes, among others, Democratic minority House leader Nancy Pelosi and Ami Bera, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans.
Ahead of his arrival in the Indian capital which is under a security lockdown in anticipation of the visit, has come news of the cancellation of the Agra leg of the presidential visit.
Obama and Michelle, who were supposed to see the Taj Mahal before flying back home Jan 27, are now to fly to Riyadh to condole the death of Saudi Arabia's king Abdullah.
This is the second visit of Obama to India as president and the first time a US president is attending the Republic Day parade as chief guest.
After his arrival at 10 a.m. in New Delhi, Obama would be accorded a ceremonial reception in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. He would then go to Rajghat to pay homage at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi.
Obama would later head to Hyderabad House for bilateral discussions, which would be held in a restricted format. After the talks, Modi is hosting a luncheon for Obama and his delegation, during which delegation level talks would be held, the spokesperson said.
The topics of discussion will include business climate, trade and investment, climate change and energy, defence and security cooperation, regional global issues, Afghanistan and terrorism.
Sunday evening, Obama would meet President Pranab Mukherjee who is to host a banquet in his honour.
On Jan 26, Obama will attend the Republic Day parade at Rajpath as the chief guest - during which India's military might and cultural diversity will be showcased in a two-hour open air event.
In the evening, he would attend the At Home reception on the expansive lawns of Rashtrapati Bhavan hosted by the president.
Obama and Modi will also address business events.
On the last day of the visit Jan 27, Obama would address a select audience at the Siri Fort auditorium on "India and America: The future we can build together" in the morning.
Modi and Obama would interact on at least seven different occasions during the three-day visit.
The two are also to record a joint 'Mann ki Baat' to be broadcast on All India Radio Jan 27, in a different take from the joint article they had penned in the Washington Post during Modi's visit to the US in September.
Ahead of his visit, Obama in an email interview to India Today magazine, exuded hope about enhanced ties with "natural partner" India, saying he would like to think that the stars are aligned to finally realise his vision of the two countries being "global partners".
He has also spoken strongly on terror emanating from Pakistan, saying that Washington has made it clear that "even as the US works with Pakistan to meet the threat of terrorism, safe havens within Pakistan are not acceptable and that those behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks must face justice".
Obama has also voiced support for India's membership in a reformed UN Security Council.
On ways to improve the bilateral relationship, Obama said the specific areas in which both can improve ties included creating jobs, improving education and creating more opportunities, including for women.
He also called for reducing the barriers to trade, investment and high-tech collaboration.
The White House has termed the invite to Obama for the Republic Day a "genuine honour" and said he was very interested in injecting a new energy and vitality into the US-India relationship.
Obama "is looking forward to see the festivities associated with Republic Day first hand", his press secretary Josh Earnest said in Washington.
India's Ambassador to the US, S. Jaishankar, has said Modi's visit to Washington last year in September "really re-energized" the bilateral ties and the visit of Obama is set to "mark a new era in bilateral ties.
He said the "symbolism of both the invitation and the acceptance is very important; it takes the relationship to a different level because it is a very public acceptance of the fact today that the earlier era is behind us, that we have very strong common interests, convergences, a sense of bonding, that there are a lot of things that we can do together and that we are willing to signal that very publicly to our peoples," the envoy said in a radio programme.
Jaishankar said he is "really very confident the visit will mark a new era in our ties".
Two of the troopers, struck by an avalanche, are still missing.
Six troopers of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles were buried under an avalanche that struck on February 20 near the Tibet border in the state's Kinnaur district, around 350 km from the state capital.
Officials said 650 personnel, specially-trained rescue dogs, rock drills and chain saws have been deployed for the search and rescue operation.
Many mountaineers from the area are also helping in the search operations.
Two separate parties of the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were patrolling Namgia Dogri when the avalanche hit.
Five ITBP troopers were also injured in the disaster.
"Rahul Gandhi talks on several subjects, even on those he is having limited knowledge of, but maintains silence over those which only he knows," Jaitley told a press conference.
"There must be some answers when someone is accused on the basis of documents. When no reply is given to such serious allegations, the country is entitled to presume that no reply could have been given," Jaitley said while seeking answers from the Congress President as to who were referred to as "RG", "AP" and "FAM" in the documents cited by the ED.
"The right to silence was available to an accused, but not to a prime ministerial aspirant. This is in public domain," Jaitley said.
Accusing the opposition leader of suppressing the truth, the Finance Minister said the issue can not be eluded as the evidence was "overwhelming and the needle of suspicion clear."
"The more you suppress the truth, the more it spreads," he said.
The ED in its fourth supplementary chargesheet has mentioned that kickbacks worth 70 million euros were paid to "important political persons of the ruling party, media persons, defence officials and bureaucrats" in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal.
The chargesheet filed against British national and middleman Christian Michel before a city court on Thursday said that the kickbacks were at least 12 per cent of the contract amount.
Described as the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile with high rate of precision and accuracy, BrahMos can be fired from land, sea and air, defence sources said.
The missile, with a strike range of around 290 km, is a strategic asset for India as it would act as a deterrence against any possible threats from China and Pakistan, they said.
Senior defence officials and scientists from DRDO and BrahMos witnessed the trial. BrahMos is a joint venture between the DRDO and the NPOM of Russia.
The highly versatile BrahMos has been operationalised in the Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force. BRAHMOS has established itself as a major force multiplier in modern-day complex battlefields with its impeccable land-attack, anti-ship capabilities with multi-role and multi-platform abilities.
Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, Modi said: "I want to announce a major decision from the Red Fort: India will have a Chief of Defence Staff -- CDS. This is going to make the forces even more effective. The new CDS post will oversee all the three wings of the armed forces."
The creation of a CDS post had been a major recommendation of the Kargil Review Committee -- of integration of the three services -- Army, Navy and Air Force -- under a Chief of Defence Staff. However, no concrete action was taken on this, until now.
The government appointed Lt Gen D.B. Shekatkar (Retd) as head of an 11-member committee to recommend measures to enhance the combat capability of the armed forces and re-balance defence expenditure.
The committee suggested a four-star Chief of Defence Staff as the chief military adviser to the Defence Minister.
The Prime Minister's announcement was immediately welcomed by former Army chief General Ved Prakash Malik (retd), who was the army chief during the Kargil War.
"Thank you PM Modi for announcing historic step of institution of CDS. This step will make our national security more effective and more economical. It will ensure better jointmanship and multi-disciplinary Acoordination. Salute," he tweeted.