The DRDO's most unusual lab

  • 04/05/2009

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 05, 2009, 0:55 IST During the Second World War, Field Marshall William Slim, commander of the 14th Army in Burma, discovered that the anopheles mosquito was causing more casualties to his men than the Japanese. Ruthlessly practical, he decreed that catching malaria was a disciplinary offence, punishable by imprisonment in a military prison. Today