Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said voters

are casting their vote in West Bengal this time in a "fearless atmosphere", which was unimaginable in the past six or seven decades.

Trinamool Congress's Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien on Wednesday expressed confidence that his party will come back to power in the state after the assembly elections and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign when the results come.

A KSRTC bus veered off the road into a field near RMS School in Atanur village today. No injuries were reported.

 A 22-year-old M Tech student was found dead in his hostel room in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, the second such incident reported on the campus within a span of 10 days.

 Actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty cast his vote in East Kolkata's Belgachia on Wednesday and hoped for a high voter turnout as was witnessed in the first phase of West Bengal Assembly polls.

 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised the Centre’s development initiative in Great Nicobar Island on Wednesday, On his maiden visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Gandhi alleged that the project will lad to large-scale environmental degradation and displacement of local communities.

 Seven people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Mainpuri, Muzaffarnagar and Deoria districts of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.

BJP president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday voiced confidence that his party will form the government in West Bengal with a "thumping majority".