TNPSC Thervupettagam
June 20 , 2021 1259 days 965 0
  • The Indian athlete Milkha Singh died at the age of 91.
  • Milkha Singh was a four-time Asian Games gold medallist and 1958 Commonwealth Games champion.
  • He also represented India in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics.
  • He was bestowed the Padma Shri in 1959.
  • He was popularly referred as the 'Flying Sikh'.
  • He was born in a village Gobindpura in the Muzaffargarh district now in Pakistan in undivided India in 20th November 1929.
  • During the partition of India, he moved to India from Pakistan in 1947.

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