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Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. A renowned economist, he is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term, and the first Sikh to hold the office. He born in Gah, now in Punjab of Pakistan in 1932. Singh's family migrated to India during its partition in 1947. After obtaining his doctorate in economics from Oxford, Singh worked for the United Nations in 1966–69.  He subsequently began his bureaucratic career when Lalit Narayan Mishra hired him as an advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Over the 70s and 80s, Singh held several key posts in the Government of India, such as Chief Economic Advisor (1972–76), Reserve Bank Governor (1982–85) and Planning Commission head (1985–87). In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, newly elected Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao surprisingly inducted the apolitical Singh into his cabinet as Finance Mi...

2012-19th most powerful man of the world by the Forbes Magazines. 2010-World Statesman Award from Appeal of Conscience Foundation. 2005-Top 100 Influential People in the World by Time Magazine. 2002-Outstanding Parliamentarian Award by Indian Parliamentary Group. 2000-Annasaheb Chirmule Award by Annasaheb Chirmule Trust. 1999-H.H. Kanchi Sri Paramacharya Award for Excellence by Shri R. Venkataraman, The Centenarian Trust. 1999-Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. 1997-Lokmanya Tilak Award by Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune. 1997-Justice K.S. Hegde Foundation Award by Justice K.S. Hegde Foundation. 1997- Nikkei Asia prize for Regional Growth by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. 1996- Honorary Professorship by Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi. 1995-Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award (1994–95) by Indian Science Congress Association 1994...