India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was responsible for major economic reforms in the country, has died at the age of 92. The news of his death came from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
India "mourns the loss of one of the country's most prominent leaders", Modi wrote on social media and praised in his short text Singh's "comprehensive efforts to improve people's lives".
Singh was Prime Minister from 2004-2014. During his first term, India saw a successful economic development that made the country a significant economic power regionally and globally. But during Singh's second term, the economic miracle came to a halt.
Singh's legacy is being praised across a broad political spectrum in India. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi wrote that he "lost a mentor and a guide", and that Singh "guided India with enormous wisdom and integrity".
Singh died in hospital after losing consciousness at his home in Delhi.
