India on Friday (Dec 27) announced seven days of state mourning after the death of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country's economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.
Dr Manmohan who held office from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 late Thursday (Dec 26) evening at a hospital in New Delhi.
He will also be accorded a state funeral.
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Dr Manmohan who held office from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 late Thursday (Dec 26) evening at a hospital in New Delhi.
He will also be accorded a state funeral.
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00:00India, on Friday, announced seven days of state mourning after the death of former Prime
00:07Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country's economic liberalization in
00:13the early 1990s.
00:14Dr. Manmohan, who held office from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 late Thursday
00:23evening.
00:25As a mark of respect for the departed dignitary, it has been decided that seven days of state
00:30mourning will be observed throughout India.
00:33A state funeral will be accorded to late Dr. Manmohan and the national flag will also be
00:38flown at half-mast.
00:40The official date for the state funeral was not immediately announced, but a senior member
00:45of the Congress Party suggested it would be held on Saturday.
00:50Dr. Manmohan, an economist-turned-politician who also served as the governor of the Central
00:55Bank, was ailing and admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
01:02He was born into a poor Sikh family in a western province now in Pakistan on September 26, 1932.
01:10In late 2010, he came under fire for a series of corruption scandals that have blocked the
01:15progress of laws through Parliament.
01:18He appeared on television to say he was not a lame-duck leader.
01:23A career technocrat, the grey-bearded, bespectacled economist acquired his global orientation
01:30working at various international organizations, including the United Nations.
01:35He was also the first Indian prime minister to hold a doctorate.
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