India Plans To Hike Defense Budget, Open Up Arms Industry

NEW DELHI — India plans to increase its defense spending by 12.5% over the previous year and further open its domestic weapons industry to foreign investments. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is also the defense minister in the new government, has earmarked 2.29 trillion rupees ($38 billion) in...

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