Singh, the first Sikh prime minister, liberalized the economy as finance minister and saved the nation from a balance-of-payments crisis.

India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh died on Thursday at age 92. Singh is credited for his work on the country's economic policies as well as for a nuclear deal with the United States. Current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Singh in a message posted on X (formerly Twitter).

Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92, current leader Narendra Modi said.He was tapped in 1991 by then Congress prime minister P.