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Manmohan Singh, India's former prime minister, has died Singh was known as the father of economic reforms in India. He served as finance minister in the early 1990s, and his policies then set ...
Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s 14th Prime Minister, passed away on Thursday, December 26, 2024, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. He was 92 years old.
As finance minister from 1991 until 1996, Singh overcame entrenched political resistance to ... As prime minister, Manmohan Singh transformed relations with Washington and built a strong bond ...
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Less than a month after he took over as India’s 22nd Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh presented a Union Budget in July 1991, that changed the country’s economic trajectory with some of the ...
India will always see Manmohan Singh, who passed away at the age of 92 on Thursday night, ... The economist entered the political stage as PV Narasimha Rao's finance minister.
New Delhi: Dr. Manmohan Singh, the fourteenth Prime Minister of India who led the Congress-led UPA government for two terms, died on Thursday after a brief illness. He was 92. Singh was admitted ...
Singh was India’s first, and so far only, Sikh prime minister. He offered a public apology for the 1984 massacre of some 3,000 Sikhs in the aftermath of former prime minister Indira Gandhi's ...
Manmohan Singh's role as Finance Minister . Dr Singh's political career started in 1991 when he was a surprise pick by then-Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, who wanted him to become the new ...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and wife Gursharan Kaur show the ink marks on their index fingers after casting votes in the Indian parliamentary elections in Gauhati, India, on April 24, 2014.
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.
Manmohan Singh, just after becoming the Finance Minister in 1991, had called a meeting of top officers. In the meeting, he laid out the reform agenda, and said that he had full backing of the then ...