Shantiniketan: A team of scientists from Visva-Bharati University’s botany department has discovered a bacterium with the ability to boost plant growth and named it 'Pantoea Tagorei' after Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a report in the media said.
A host of government officials on Thursday descended on Ballabhpur Danga, the tribal hamlet in Santiniketan’s Sonajhuri forest where Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday made a surprise detour on her way back to Calcutta to meet villagers and even wield the ladle at a roadside food stall.
The hamlet buzzed with activities on Thursday when officials came to look into the issues that villagers had raised with the chief minister on Wednesday.
When Mamata walked down the hamlet’s dusty tracks stopping by a food stall to help cook vegetable curry many residents told her about the lack of toilets and disability pensions, and the continuing water crisis, among others.