Sri Lanka, Sept. 27 -- India Former union minister Jaswant Singh,one of the longest serving parliamentarians in India,died this morning in Delhi at the age of 82.
Jaswant Singh, who was from Rajasthan, had served as India's foreign minister, defense minister and finance minister. He was a close aide of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Mr Singh, who studied in Ajmer's Mayo College, was an officer in the Indian Army in the 1950s and 60s, but he later resigned to pursue a career in politics.
He was one of the longest serving parliamentarians in India. He died today at 6:55 AM after a cardiac arrest at Delhi's Army Hospital (Research & Referral) where he was admitted in June. "It is with profound grief that we inform about the sad...