In the villages of Chatingabari, Kamalpur, Dakapara and others in the troubled Nandigram block I intermittent gun shots rang out as panicked people were seen leaving their homes for safe places, eyewitnesses said.
The situation in Kamptee town near Nagpur was normal after nearly five days of arson and violence and curfew has been lifted, police said.
Six policemen were injured as a group of Dalits allegedly indulged in arson and violence in Kamptee near Nagpur, prompting police to clamp indefinite curfew on Tuesday.
Rakesh was shot on August 27 by three motorcycle-borne men when he and one Vikki were going to meet another friend
The situation was brought under control after district magistrate Rajesh Kumar and superintendent of police Anil Kishore Yadav assured the agitated students to look into the matter.
Heavy police security had been deployed at various places following the large scale protests.
During the violence, a mob torched a shop, a house and damaged at least five vehicles, besides injuring a senior police officer, they said.
The Dalits were protesting the killing of a Dalit family in Kherlanji in Bhandara district of Maharashtra.
This was done on the recommendation of the Nanavati Commission.
Patnaik, a 1985 batch IPS officer from the Union Territories cadre, replaces Alok Verma, who has been named as the new Central Bureau of Investigation director.
Two were arrested for burning down of Dalit homes, while four were arrested in a murder case that led the arson.
The workers were protesting against the suspension of 50 and the dismissal of four HMSI employees after a strike at the Honda plant in Manesar in Haryana.
The judge said the journalists 'collected and obtained confidential documents'.
Around 20-25 youths of upper caste Thakur community from Shabbirpur village were on their way to Simlana village under Badgaon police station to take part in a function to garland the statue of Rajput warrior-king Maharana Pratap.
BJP general secretary in-charge of Haryana Anil Jail also appealed to the Jats who have been protesting in Haryana to call off their agitation, which has badly hit life in the region, and return to their homes as their demands have been met.
Tension in two localities in Mau, night curfew continues
The results of the report are too therefore politically motivated," Javadekar said. The BJP, he added, was instead waiting for a court verdict on the Godhra train fire.
Panchajanya's editor Tarun Vijay blamed Hundu hypocrisy for the scant attention that Gohana has got from political leaders.
Curfew has been imposed in Shalibanda, Moghualpura, Bhawani Nagar, Chatrainaka, Meerchowk, Rein Bazar, Dabirpura and Gowlipura police station areas.
Replying to a debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in Lok Sabha, Modi also attacked the Congress for its politics in the last seven decades, saying the party's politics of last 70 years has been such that no Congress leader can be self-sufficient.
Two tiffin bombs, suspected to be planted by Maoists to target security forces and polling parties during the Lok Sabha elections, were uncovered by authorities in the insurgency-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh.
Situation tense in ethnic violence-hit Karbi Anglong
Curfew has been imposed in Vizianagaram town with police given the orders to shoot at sight in the wake of large-scale violence by anti-bifurcation agitators, police said.
Prohibitory orders were imposed in Delhi and parts of Karnataka. Police kept tight vigil in Kerala. In Gujarat, 50 people were arrested for Thursday's violence.
Justice G T Nanavati on Monday said: "Local Congress leaders had a role in the riots. It (riots) was organised. It would not have been possible without the help of the Congress leaders."
A Dalit woman, who was allegedly gang-raped a few days back, committed suicide by setting herself ablaze, prompting her family and Bahujan Samaj Party workers to stage a violent protest in Sikandarau area in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case of murder against 11 persons in connection with the killing of two infants of a Dalit family in an alleged arson attack in Sunped village in Haryana on October 20.
Violence erupted on the campus around last midnight, following a clash between two student groups leading to the death of Mahtab, DIG (AligarhRange) Govind Agarwal, who led the police operation, said.
Curfew was on Friday night imposed in this town in Madhya Pradesh after a clash between members of two communities which left seven persons injured, three of them with gunshot wounds, and saw a number of shops and vehicles being torched, the police said on Saturday.
An altercation in Parivartan Chowk in Lucknow on Friday over a trivial issue had led to clashes between lawyers and policemen.
An uneasy calm prevailed on Sunday in violence-hit Saharanpur where 38 people were arrested as a political blame game erupted with BJP accusing Samajwadi Party of indulging in "vote-bank politics" and Congress blasting the UP government for "lapses".
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi government and police seeking detailed reports on the status of investigation into the alleged vandalisation of a south Delhi church.
Arsonists set an Islamic school on fire in the latest in a string of attacks in the Netherlands in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker.
A German newspaper in Hamburg was the target of an arson attack early on Sunday after it reprinted cartoons of Prophet Mohammed from the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. No one was hurt in the incident.
The shutdown generated tension in Mumbai and a number of towns and cities across Maharashtra.
Honeypreet stood in the courtroom with folded hands and pleaded innocence with tears in her eyes.
