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1. Every year, This Day is observed to remind India’s technological advancements.
2. Theme of this year is "Focusing on Rebooting the economy through Science and Technology".
3. On May 11th 1998, India tested its first successful Shakti-I nuclear missile.
4. The missile was tested in the Indian Army Pokhran Test Range, Rajasthan.
5. The operation was called “Operation Shakti” (Pokhran II).
6. After this successful test, PM Vajpayee called India a complete nuclear state.
7. It was led by our former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
8. It made India the sixth country to join the nuclear club after P5 countries.
9. It also made India the rst country to not join the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT).
10. Earlier India's rst nuclear experiment was “Smiling Buddha” (Pokhran I).
11. It was conducted in May 1974 at Pokhran.
12. May 11 was also the day the DRDO (Defence Research Development Organization) accomplished the test of Trishul missile.
13. It also marks the flight of first indigenous aircraft called Hansa-3.