Manmohan Singh was born on 26 September, 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He came from a poor family background, as his father used to sell dry fruits to look after his family. He studied economics in Chandigarh and later went to Cambridge & Oxford UK for higher studies. He worked as a Professor [...]
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Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
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Har Gobind Khorana, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine.
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Har Gobind Khorana was born on 1922 in Raipur, Punjab. Dr. Khorana received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Punjab University in Lahore (in present day Pakistan) and his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool(England), where he went in 1945 on a Government of India Fellowship. Dr. Khorana spent a year in Zurich in [...]
