Former National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon's comments that permission was not sought during the UPA regime for testing of an anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile are "erroneous" and "a flight of imagination," said former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Dr VK Saraswat on Sunday. Dr Saraswat, a member of the NITI Aayog, retired as head of DRDO in 2013.

The EC has given PM Modi a-clean-chit in its preliminary-report over his address to nation on Mission Shakti, sources have said. Sources in EC said they haven't found anything wrong with PM's speech after India successfully tested anti-satellite missile. PM Modi said, "It is a matter of pride for all of us in India that Mission was accomplished using an indigenously developed ASAT missile."

The space debris from India's anti-satellite weapons launch is expected to burn-out in less than 45-days, top-defence-scientist said seeking to allay global concern about fragments hitting objects. The comments came a day after PM Modi said India used an-indigenously developed ballistic missile-interceptor to destroy one of its own satellites at a height of 300km in a test aimed at boosting India's defences in space.