Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country’s economic reform programme, has been cremated after ... was the first Sikh to hold the country ...

Mr Singh’s body was then transferred to a pyre as religious hymns played and he was cremated. Authorities have ... Mr Singh was the first Sikh to hold the country’s top post and made a public ...

Security officials and others walk with the hearse carrying the body of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh towards the cremation site in New Delhi ... skirting a potential economic crisis.