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India announces state funeral for former PM Manmohan Singh

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India announced seven days of state mourning yesterday after the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.

Singh, who held office from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 late on Thursday evening at a hospital in New Delhi. He will also be accorded a state funeral.

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