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New Delhi: India’s epochal civil nuclear agreement with the United States in 2008 will remain a crowning glory for Manmohan Singh’s prime ministership in the foreign policy domain as it not only ended the country’s nuclear apartheid but created a favourable geopolitical configuration. Dr Singh, the then prime minister, was so convinced about the futuristic…
New Delhi: Dr Manmohan Singh’s critics often labelled him as a “silent Prime Minister”, taking a dig at his reticent demeanour during his decade-long tenure at the helm of the UPA government from 2004 to 2014. However, there were moments when the former PM defended himself. In 2018, at the launch of ‘Changing India’, a…
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New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92 due to age-related medical conditions on Thursday. Condolences have poured in from across the world for the two-time ex-PM and the architect of India’s economic reforms. Many world leaders have highlighted his contributions and warm relations with their nations. US Secretary…
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Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is seen as the architect of India’s economic reforms during the PV Narasimha Rao rule that paved the way for the country’s economic growth. But besides economics, his other abiding interest was ‘shayari’ and he often employed verses to launch attacks on political rivals inside and outside the Parliament….
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New Delhi: Manmohan Singh, the architect of India’s economic reforms, had to literally face a trial-by-fire to ensure widespread acceptance of his path-breaking Union Budget of 1991 that saw the nation rise from its darkest financial crises. Dr Singh, the newly-appointed finance minister in the P V Narasimha Rao-led government, did it with great elan…
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New Delhi: Much of India’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands on solid ground due the foundation laid by two of his immediate predecessors – former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. India’s global diplomacy made a tectonic shift in its policy and outlook on the back of two major decisions…
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New Delhi: Much of India’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands on solid ground due the foundation laid by two of his immediate predecessors – former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. India’s global diplomacy made a tectonic shift in its policy and outlook on the back of two major decisions…
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New Delhi: Condolences have poured in from across the globe following the demise of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Leaders from neighbouring countries, including the Maldives and Afghanistan, expressed deep grief over his passing, highlighting his contributions and warm relations with their nations. Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai in a post on X…
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Dr Manmohan Singh died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday night. New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh made “strategic corrections” to India’s foreign policy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, condoling the death of the Congress leader. Dr Singh, the architect of India’s economic reforms, died at the…
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New Delhi: He drew the roadmap of India’s economic reform, unshackled it from the licence raj and pulled it back from the brink when even all its gold reserve was pledged. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was the scholar and architect of the India of today who evolved into a stubbornly resolute politician. Unassuming, erudite,…
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