BY : Express News Service


Hundreds of Indian soldiers were exposed to mustard gas by the British Army as part of large-scale experiments to determine how much of the poison gas that can cause severe burns was necessary to produce a battlefield casualty, The Guardian reported today citing documents it had uncovered.


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It says many soldiers may have been duped into taking part in the experiments, which were conducted in the 1930s at a military installation in Rawalpindi by scientists

BY : HEATHER TIMMONS and SOMINI SENGUPTA



India is developing a military appetite to match its growing economic power.

Over the next five years, military analysts expect the country to spend as much as $40 billion on weapons procurement alone, more than its entire annual armaments budget today — upgrading systems as diverse as jet fighters, artillery, submarines and tanks in its largely Soviet-era arsenal. As a result, India will become one of the largest military markets in the world.