Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the success of India's "Mission Shakti in an address to the nation, Rahul Gandhi congratulated the defence research body and wished PM "Happy World Theatre Day". PM Modi announced that India had joined the elite club of space powers by shooting down a live satellite with an anti-satellite missile or A-SAT. India is the fourth country to have tested such an anti-satellite weapon after the US, Russia and China, the Prime Minister said in a rare address to the nation with elections just weeks away.
