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India’s former PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [File: Anupam Nath/AP]

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who governed the South Asian country for two terms and liberalised its economy in an earlier stint as finance minister, has died. He was 92.

Singh, an economist-turned-politician who also served as the governor of the Central Bank of India, was ailing and admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi late on Thursday.

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