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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel volition present the archetypal Dr Manmohan Singh Memorial Lecture successful the nationalist superior connected February 26, sources said successful New Delhi connected Thursday (February 13, 2026).
The lecture is being organised by the Dr. Manmohan Singh Trust.
Merkel, who shared bully ties with the erstwhile Prime Minister, volition present the inaugural lecture bid successful representation of Singh. She volition talk connected “Germany and India successful times of planetary change”.
Singh, considered the designer of India’s economical reforms and a statement builder successful the unsmooth satellite of politics, died astatine the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, connected December 26, 2024. He was 92.
Manmohan Singh steered the state arsenic Prime Minister for 10 years from 2004-2014 and helped acceptable up the country’s economical model arsenic concern minister. He was besides a renowned sanction successful the planetary fiscal and economical sectors.
The memorial spot was established by the household of the erstwhile Prime Minister to oversee the operation of his memorial astatine Rashtriya Smriti Sthal. The authorities has earmarked a crippled adjacent to erstwhile President Pranab Mukherjee’s memorial and a ₹25 lakh assistance to the trust.
