About Nirmal Kaur
Lived 1938 – 2021 (aged 82). Nirmal Kaur was an Indian volleyball player and volleyball.
Nirmal Saini also known as Nirmal Milkha Singh(8 October 1938 13 June 2021) was an Indian volleyball player and captain of the India women's national volleyball team.
Personal life Nirmal Saini met Milkha Singh in 1955 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during a sports tournament. The then Chief Minister of Punjab Partap Singh Kairon persuaded her father to give his consent. They married in 1962. . The couple have 3 daughters and a son, golfer Jeev Milkha Singh and lived in Chandigarh. In 1999, they adopted the seven-year-old son of Havildar Bikram Singh, who had died in the Battle of Tiger Hill.
She died on 13 June 2021, in Mohali, due to COVID-19 complications; her husband died five days later, also from the virus.
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Who was Nirmal Kaur?
Indian volleyball player (1938-2021)
When was Nirmal Kaur born?
Nirmal Kaur was born on 10 October 1938 in Sheikhupura.
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Nirmal Kaur died on 13 June 2021 in Mohali.
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Nirmal Kaur was a volleyball player and volleyball.
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Nirmal Kaur was Indian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Nirmal Kaur. https://biography.guide/nirmal-kaur/
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