The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Friday called an indefinite shutdown in north Bengal's Darjeeling hills from Sunday to protest the arrest of an elected member of the hill development body for alleged involvement in arson and violence.

The Opposition Congress in Tripura has called a dawn-to-dusk bandh in the municipal corporation area on Tuesday to protest the killing of three employees of a local Bengali daily.

Rajasthan unit of BJP has called for a state-level bandh on May 18 to protest the CBI chargesheet against Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria in Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) has called a dawn to dusk state-wide bandh on May 19 in protest against alleged forcible acquisition of agriculture land at Nagari in Ranchi.

Tight security arrangements have been made at strategic places after reports of the CPI(Maoist) calling a 48-hour Jharkhand-Bihar shutdown from Saturday.

Mumbra township, which dominated headlines last week when 74 people were killed in a building collapse, and its surrounding areas will observe a bandh on Friday to protest the civic authorities' demolition drive without announcing a rehabilitation policy.

Two police personnel were killed and several injured in a Naxal attack in Maoist-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday.

Normal life was partially affected on Friday during a 12-hour state-wide 'hartal' called by the ruling BJD in Odisha demanding special category status to the state.

Amidst reports that Maoists have called a 48-hour bandh in Jharkhand and Bihar from April 6 to protest against killing of their 10 cadres, the police on Sunday said all measures would be taken to ensure that normal life prevailed during the period.

Maoists on Saturday blew up a railway track on Muzaffarpur-Hajipur section under Sonepur division of the East-Central Railway (ECR) in Bihar's Vaishali district, affecting train services on the route for several hours.