About Pantoea Tagorei:
- It was discovered from soil samples collected in the Jharia coal mines.
- Characteristics
- It has unique properties beneficial for plant growth.
- It not only solubilizes potassium but also replenishes nitrogen and solubilizes
- The team has conducted experiments by introducing this bacterium to farmers, who have expressed satisfaction with the positive results.
- Significance: This bacteria marks a significant stride toward fostering environmentally friendly agricultural methods.
Key facts about Rabindranath Tagore:
- He was a world-renowned poet, litterateur, philosopherand Asia’s first Nobel laureate.
- He was born in Kolkata on May 7, 1861.
- He was popularly known as Bard of Bengal,and
- He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
- He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa.
- Awards: In 1913he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
- He was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he repudiated it in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh) Massacre.
- Visva Bharati University, which was known as Shantiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
- Rabindranath Tagore wrote India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana.
- Tagore’s most notable work of poetry is Gitanjali: Song Offerings, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
