India on Friday (Dec 27) announced seven days of state mourning after the death of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country's economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.

Dr Manmohan Singh passed away at AIIMS in Delhi on Thursday at 92. He served as the country’s prime minister for two terms — starting in 2004. It was Singh that modernised the nation’s economy. However,

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