Attendance in commercial organisations is very thin.
A Public Interest Litigation against bandhs was filed in the Bombay high court by AGNI, theatre personality Alyque Padamsee and former municipal commissioner B G Deshmukh.
In a climbdown, Gorkha Janamukti Morcha, spearheading an indefinite bandh in Darjeeling hills for the last 10 days to demand Gorkhaland state, on Mondy said it would not use force to enforce the shutdown but a 'janata curfew' would be held as announced from Tuesday.
A bandh was observed in Palghar town in adjoining Thane district on Wednesday following a call by the Shiv Sena against suspension of two senior police officers in connection with the arrest of two girls over a Facebook post, criticising shutdown during Bal Thackeray's funeral.
The houses of a sitting and a former MLA, both Dalits, were set afire by a violent mob.
Breaking the lull in their agitation, the pro-Telangana activists have called for a strike on September 5 to stall the Group I preliminary examinations of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission. The bandh call has been given by the Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee to press its demand for a quota for the Telangana region in Group I jobs of the state government. Their stand is being supported by the Telangana Joint Action Committee.
Six long distance trains bound for Howrah and Sealdah were delayed due to the bandh called by the Maoist Communist Centre and People's War in Bihar and Jharkhand.
A statewide 12-hour bandh called by pro-Kannada outfits on Wednesday on the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary issue affected normal life in Bangalore and most parts of Karnataka.
Official sources in Shillong said that the bandh called by the HNLC, which launched an armed revolution demanding a 'separate homeland' for the Khasi tribe in Meghalaya, has affected road services to Shillong from Guwahati and other parts of Assam.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) 48-hour bandh has incurred a huge loss to the coastal areas of East Godavari, West Godvari and Viskhapatnam.
While today is an extended holiday for many employees in the IT sector who are enjoying the long weekeed, it is not a total shutdown across India.
The nation-wide two-day bandh by traders against introduction of the much-touted value added tax evoked a mixed response on its opening day on Monday affecting commercial activities to a great extent.
Miscreants had also set fire to a police outpost.
The bandh had been called to protest against the 'high-handedness' of the district administration during Tuesday's agitation demanding opening of the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Moula mosque complex.
Normal life in the urban areas remained unaffected in Jharkhand's East and West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharswan districts during the 'Bharat bandh' called by Maoists.
Security was tightened at the various facilities of Anil Ambani-owned Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group in Andhra Pradesh after mobs attacked the group's offices in five districts of the state on Thursday.
The bandh was called by opposition parties and student organisations in protest against the killing of three youths in an alleged police encounter.
A 12-hour bandh in Bangalore to protest rising cases of sexual offences against women and children called by Kannada outfits on Thursday evoked a mixed response.
A bandh called by the National Democratic Alliance, Left parties and the Samajwadi Party to protest against diesel price hike, Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail and cap on subsidised LPG on Thursday evoked mixed response as protestors disrupted road and rail traffic in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha but it had little impact in Mumbai.
Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Dalit icon B R Ambedkar, said Maharashtra Democratic Front, Maharashtra Left Front, besides 250 organisations, have supported Wednesday's shutdown.
However, the famous Sai Baba temple in the town will remain open, its trustees said on Saturday.
The Madhya Pradesh Congress on Tuesday claimed that the 24-hour state-wide bandh, called by the party to protest the killing of IPS officer, Narendra Kumar Singh and the deteriorating law and order situation in the state was a big success.
Federation of Associations of Maharashtra has called upon its constituents and the trading community to observe a bandh in Maharashtra on Monday as a mark of respect to Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, who passed away on Saturday.
As many as 13,500 personnel of Bihar Military Police and central forces have been deployed across the state to assist the local police.
Big players like Wal-Mart will kill the Indian retail sector," Prakash Javadekar, member of BJP in Rajya Sabha said.
The biggest message is: the country is rather tired of the price spiral which has remained quite high for a long spell. The pocket is pinching and that counts, writes Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Business establishments and markets remained closed as BJP, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists took to the streets shouting anti-Congress slogans and burning effigies Sonia Gandhi.
All shops, business establishments, schools and colleges remained closed. Attendance in government offices and banks was thin.\n\n
One more incident of self immolation and another attempted suicide rocked the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh on Monday triggering yet another call for the bandh in the region on Tuesday.
The 12-hour bandh was called by the Trinamool Congress against farmland acquisition for a Tata Motors project.
The decision to go on strike comes as the Supreme Court-ordered sealing drive against trading activities in residential areas is set to resume from November 1.
Chairman of the hard line faction of the Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Tuesday, called for a Kashmir bandh on Wednesday to protest the killing of three boys by the army.
Hardik Patel, 22, who was briefly detained over his hunger strike to demand Other Backward Class reservation for the Patel community, called for a state-wide bandh on Wednesday to intensify the agitation.
Kanimozhi told reporters that the Palaniswami-led government has become 'bloodthirsty' and the chief minister should be held responsible for the incident.
Sena has not supported Gaikwad's act but senior party leaders have expressed reservations over the airlines' action against him
Supporters of former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy have called for Bellary district bandh on Tuesday to protest his arrest under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Going back on its call for an indefinite shut down in Darjeeling in view of the Eid festival, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Thursday announced a four-day bandh from Saturday to demand a separate Gorkhaland.
A youth was injured in a clash and 35 people were detained in Jammu, which witnessed a shutdown for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday as the protests demanding an AIIMS in Jammu continued unabated.
Thousands of farmers from around 100 villages of Noida and Greater Noida on Thursday took to the streets seeking hiked compensation, bringing traffic to a standstill in several parts of Delhi-NCR as they made an unsuccessful bid to march towards Parliament.
