NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Saturday confirmed that India had successfully conducted a flight-trial of an advanced Agni missile with the multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle (MIRV) system from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast on Friday.MIRV technology allows a single ballistic missile to evade defences and deliver multiple nuclear warheads to different targets, significantly increasing its firepower. The Agni missile was flight-tested with multiple payloads, aimed at different targets spatially distributed over a large geographical area in the Indian Ocean Region, the ministry said in a statement. With this successful trial, India had once again demonstrated…