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March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) Thursday closed down -0.28 (-1.43%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH25 ) did not trade with markets in the UK closed for the Boxing Day holiday. NY sugar Thursday tumbled to a 3-1/4 month low and settled moderately lower. Sugar prices...

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's passing at 92 is mourned in India. His legacy in politics and governance is widely respected.

Ex-President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil expressed deep sorrow over the demise of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Manmohan Singh's father may have believed his bookworm son would one day lead India, but the understated technocrat with the trademark blue turban, who died Thursday at the age of 92, never dreamed it would actually happen.

Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92, current leader Narendra Modi said.

Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to “sudden loss of consciousness at home,” the hospital said in a statement

Towards the fag end of his second and final term as Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh had said that he did not believe that he was a weak PM, and that “history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media or for that matter the opposition in Parliament”.

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) today is down -0.20 (-1.02%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH25 ) is not trading with markets in the UK closed for the Boxing Day holiday. NY sugar today tumbled to a 3-1/4 month low. Sugar prices have been under pressure...

Singh served as prime minister from 2004 to 2014 and was the architect of India’s economic liberalisation in the 1990s.

A chaotic run-out has sparked a dramatic Indian collapse late on day two of the Boxing Day Test, leaving the tourists 5-164 and still trailing Australia by 310.

When thermal power plants burn coal to generate electricity, sulphur mixes with oxygen to release sulphur dioxide – or SO2 – in the air. In 2019, India became the largest emitter of this toxic gas.