{"id":68576,"date":"2024-12-28T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/28\/india-mourns-former-pm-manmohan-singh-with-delhi-state-funeral"},"modified":"2024-12-28T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T12:32:40","slug":"india-mourns-former-pm-manmohan-singh-with-delhi-state-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68576","title":{"rendered":"India mourns former PM Manmohan Singh with Delhi state funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People line New Delhi streets to pay tribute to man who steered India through some of its most turbulent economic times<\/p>\n<p>India bade farewell to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of the country\u2019s economic transformation, with a state funeral in New Delhi, complete with full honours and a 21-gun salute.<\/p>\n<p>Sikh priests chanted hymns as Singh\u2019s flag-draped coffin, strewn with rose petals, was carried on a carriage through the capital, pulled by a ceremonially decorated army truck. Congress party supporters chanted: \u201cAs long as the sun and moon remain, your name will remain,\u201d and \u201cLong live Manmohan Singh\u201d as Singh\u2019s body was removed from the headquarters of the left-leaning party, where it had been lying in state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/28\/india-mourns-former-pm-manmohan-singh-with-delhi-state-funeral\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People line New Delhi streets to pay tribute to man who steered India through some of its most turbulent economic timesIndia bade farewell to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of the country\u2019s economic transformation, with a state fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68576\/revisions\/68590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}