India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died.

Country announced seven-day mourning period and has cancelled all cultural and entertainment events in the coming week

I T IS FITTING that Manmohan Singh, who unshackled Indian trade and industry as the country’s finance minister in 1991, was the son of an importer. His father’s firm in Peshawar brought dry fruit and spices to India from Afghanistan.

Senior Bangladeshi politician Abdul Moyeen Khan lauds former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for revolutionizing India's economy, transforming it into a global powerhouse. In a message to India's High Commissioner,

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92, according to statement from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Manmohan Singh, former Indian Prime Minister and a pivotal figure in the country’s economic transformation, died in New Delhi on Dec. 26. He was 92.

A mild-mannered technocrat, Manmohan Singh became one of India's longest-serving prime ministers. He was chosen to fill the role by Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

India has mourned one of its longest-serving prime ministers, Manmohan Singh, with a state funeral in Delhi. Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect of India's economic liberalisation.

The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has sparked outpourings of grief at home and accolades from abroad, was cremated on Sunday on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi with full state honours.

People lined the streets of Delhi on Saturday for Manmohan Singh’s funeral procession after the former Indian prime minister died aged 92 on Thursday.