The former prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, has died at the age of 92. He was the country's first Sikh prime minister and credited with launching economic reforms that led to India's emergence as a global leader.

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,

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92, according to statement from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

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