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A local at former Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s ancestral Gah village, in Chakwal district, Pakistan. Singh, the architect of India’s economic reforms, died in New Delhi. He was 92. | Photo Credit: PTI “The entire village is in mourning. We feel that someone from our family has died today,” Altaf Hussain said as a group…
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New Delhi: In the corridors of the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), where ideas often find shape and future leaders are quietly moulded, the memories of former prime minister Manmohan Singh remain deeply etched. Long before he became the architect of India’s economic liberalisation and later, its prime minister, Mr Singh was a professor at…
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New Delhi: He held an overseas bank account that had his earnings from working abroad. The value of his savings, in rupee terms, went up following the July 1991 decision of the government to devalue the Indian currency. Instead of pocketing the gains, Manmohan Singh, who was the finance minister in the PV Narasimha Rao…
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Guwahati: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has a 28-year long link with Assam as a Rajya Sabha MP from the northeast state. Among the people in the state who have worked closely with Manmohan Singh is former Assam chief secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna. Mr Krishna was a district magistrate in Kamrup (Metro) district when he…
Lahore: Pakistan’s former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri recalled fond memories of his association with the late Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who died in Delhi on Thursday night. In an interview with PTI in Lahore on Friday, Mr Kasuri said that Dr Singh will be remembered in history as a man who devoted…
New Delhi: While studying in Cambridge University on a scholarship in the mid 1950s, money was the only real problem for Manmohan Singh and there were times when he had to skip meals or live on a sixpence bar of Cadbury’s chocolate, according to his daughter Daman Singh. Manmohan Singh earned a First Class Honours…
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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with former ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan during his visit to Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: File Photo Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s association with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), especially the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (SDSC-SHAR), was marked by support and vision to perpetuate the space missions. During…
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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with former ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan during his visit to Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: File Photo Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s association with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), especially the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (SDSC-SHAR), was marked by support and vision to perpetuate the space missions. During…
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New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who passed away aged 92 in the national capital on Thursday, had a brush with the justice system when he was summoned as an accused in a coal block allocation case. The Supreme Court, however, intervened and stayed the directive. Manmohan Singh, an astute economist and a stalwart…
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New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Friday condoled the passing of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, saying his contributions to Bharat will always be remembered. “The entire nation is extremely saddened by the demise of the former prime minister of Bharat and senior leader of the country Dr Sardar…
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