West Bengal leads the annual state wise table of contribution to small savings at 15.09 per cent. For the year FY18, Tamil Nadu is fifth in the small savings pecking order at 4.8 per cent
PM also said a BJP wave was blowing across West Bengal where the party will win over 200 of the state's 294 assembly seats
Men, women and first-time voters queued up in front of the polling stations in large numbers
Polling is underway in Assam for the second phase of assembly elections
A media vehicle was vandalised in Nandigram by unidentified miscreants
The matter is likely to come up for hearing on April 8
As soon as Banerjee reached Boyal, BJP supporters started chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans
Voting in Nandigram is underway amid multiple allegations of disruptions by the Trinamool Congress
In the Boyal area in Nandigram, villagers alleged that BJP supporters had stopped them from going to the polling booths
Voting for the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly election began at 7 am on Thursday
Javadekar refused to answer another question on West Bengal polls, saying the press meet was for the Dadasaheb Phalke award
Assembly polls will be held in Tamil Nadu on April 6 in a single phase for which campaigning would end in the evening of April 4
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday said the results of Assembly polls in four states, specially Assam and West Bengal, will decide the next course of national politics
The situation in Assam was peaceful with a significant number of voters turning up during the morning hours to exercise their franchise in the 39 seats where voting was underway in the second phase
Amid violence between political parties in West Bengal, the voter turnout for the second phase of state Assembly polls reached 37.42 per cent till 11
After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Mandal President of Debra, Mohan Singh, was detained by the police ruckus took place near a polling booth in West Bengal's Debra constituency on Thursday
Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly is being conducted in eight phases
"There is no end to our sufferings," said Renuka Adhikary, an 84-year-old resident of Debra in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur, who still has to walk two kilometres every day to fetch drinking water
The 15th tranche of bond sale took place from January 1 to January 10, 2021
PM Modi invoked Tamil classic 'Thirukkural' and said one common theme in it was respect for farmers