PM Sheikh Hasina visits Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Publish | 26 May 2018, 11:06

Online Desk

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday visited historic ‘Jorasanko Thakur Bari’, the residence of Biswa Kabi Rabindranath Tagore.

The Prime Minister went round different rooms of the Thakur Bari located at Rabindra Sarani, Singhi Bagan, north off Kolkata.

Sheikh Hasina also signed the visitors' book.

It is the house where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861, spent most of his childhood and died on August 7, 1941.

The Prime Minister arrived here in the morning on a two-day official visit to India at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

Source: unb