In a significant escalation of the row over the choice of Dr Manmohan Singh's cremation site, senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the BJP-ruled government at the Centre.

India has mourned one of its longest-serving prime ministers, Manmohan Singh, with a state funeral in Delhi. Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect of India's economic liberalisation.

The veteran leader, who was also credited for a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, died late Thursday at age 92.

The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has spark outpourings of grief at home and accolades from abroad, was cremated on Sunday on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi with full state honours.

India announced a seven-day mourning period and cancelled all cultural and entertainment events in the coming week

Kind or not, history definitely would remember the contributions of former PM Manmohan Singh. He passed away in December at the age of 93. The man is credited with making Indian one of the fastest growing in the world during his tenure.

Mourners in India's capital gathered Saturday to pay their respects to former prime minister Manmohan Singh ahead of a state funeral for the man key to the country's economic liberalisation.Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92. Singh was one of India's longest-serving prime ministers and he was considered the architect of key liberalising economic reforms,

People lined the streets of Delhi on Saturday for Manmohan Singh’s funeral procession after the former Indian prime minister died aged 92 on Thursday.

The Congress accused the Centre of disrespecting former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by conducting his last rites at a public crematorium, while the BJP countered by accusing the Congress of politicising the issue,