President pays tribute to Rabindranath Tagore

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IANS New Delhi
Last Updated : May 09 2014 | 2:09 PM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee Friday paid floral tributes to Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his 153rd birth anniversary, at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.

Other office bearers and staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan were also present on the occasion.

In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel laureate is the author of the country's national anthem.

--Indo-Asian News Service

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