Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji. Rising from humble origins, he rose to become a respected economist. He served in various government positions as well, including as Finance Minister, leaving a strong ...

I n June 1991, Dr. Manmohan Singh was unexpectedly approached by then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao to become the Finance Minister. Initially, Singh thought it was just another empty political ...

It is interesting to recall that in 2004, when Dr Manmohan Singh was named as Prime Minister, with P Chidambaram as Finance Minister, and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia was Planning Commission Vice ...

India on Saturday accorded former premier Manmohan Singh ... who called the former prime minister his mentor and guide, joined Singh's family as they prayed before his cremation.

"I can say that the idea of (making) Manmohan Singh the finance minister was mine," then President R Venkataraman told Chowdhury in 2002. Rao had sought suggestions from Venkataraman for the ...

NEW DELHI: The architect of the first round of India’s economic reform – Dr Manmohan Singh, the former prime minister and finance minister – breathed his last late on Thursday night.

Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Friday described Dr Manmohan Singh as the “best ...

He replied, “You don’t know him. Manmohan Singh is an over-estimated economist and an underestimated politician. If Narasimha Rao’s finance minister could become Sonia Gandhi’s Prime ...

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday decided to scale down the security cover provided to late former Prime ...

When asked whether Manmohan Singh was a better finance minister or prime minister, Montek explained that the two jobs are different since his achievements as the finance minister remain "historic ...

The program will select 50 mid-career professionals annually from across the country. These individuals will be in the middle ...

Instead of pocketing the gains, Manmohan Singh, who was the finance minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government at that time, just wrote a cheque for the incremental gains and had it deposited in ...