New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry announced that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's last rites would be held at 11.45 am on Saturday at the Nigambodh Ghat crematorium in New Delhi, with state honours. Singh passed away on Thursday night at the age of 92 at AIIMS.

The Home Ministry, in a statement on Friday, also mentioned that the Ministry of Defence has been asked to make arrangements for the funeral, which will include full military honours, reported PTI.

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Earlier, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to conduct Dr Singh's last rites at a location where a memorial can be built. "This is in keeping with such tradition of having memorials of statesmen and former Prime Ministers at the very place of their funerals," Kharge said in his two-page letter.

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