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Sunday, December 21, 2025
TopicDr Manmohan Singh

Topic: Dr Manmohan Singh

An AI Jawaharlal Nehru is taking the heat for everything, and roasting Modi

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

‘Would’ve been pleased with tributes in his own quiet way.’ Family, peers remember Manmohan Singh

Remembrance event was organised by Manmohan Singh’s family at Delhi’s India Habitat Centre. It concluded with rendition of Faiz’s “Gulon Mein Rang Bhare” by his youngest daughter Amrit.

How Agnipath scheme put Nepalese Gurkhas in a fix & Manmohan was ‘appalled by Modi’s rhetoric’

Global media also discusses how China’s new mega dam might impact its ties with India & how a food programme launched in US universities created 'knowledge gaps' in South Asia.

H1B-what you want to be, just not that person & cracking the ‘whip’ for justice

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Fact Check: Manmohan Singh’s hospital picture is from 2021. It’s not his last image

A viral photo, allegedly showing Manmohan Singh bedridden in a hospital, has been circulating on social media, misrepresented as his last image.

Maldives prez Muizzu calls Manmohan Singh a ‘great statesman’, says his 2011 visit cemented friendship

President Muizzu signed the condolence book at the Indian High Commission, conveying sympathies to Dr Singh’s family, Indian govt, and its people, following the former PM's demise.

Jayant sacks RLD spokespersons after Dalit leader criticises Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

At Manmohan Singh’s last rites, BJP in limelight, Congress complains of being put in shadows

Only Doordarshan cameras allowed inside at funeral, with footage showing mostly BJP leaders. Congress lambasts govt, police officer cites security for dignitaries, family's concerns.

Gandhis, Kejriwal slam Centre for ‘insulting’ Manmohan Singh by arranging his last rites at Nigambodh Ghat

The leaders attack Modi govt for not arranging the ceremony at a site that could have been turned into the former PM’s memorial. ‘Even his family had to struggle for space,’ they allege.

Two-time PM, Congress stalwart Manmohan Singh cremated with full state honours at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat

Singh passed away Thursday night at 92. The last rites were attended by the President, Vice President, prime minister, and senior Congress and BJP leaders.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.