<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">new delhi: no untoward incident has been reported in the capital during the nationwide bandh called by the vishwa hindu parishad on friday. according to delhi police sources there have been no reports of disruption of traffic or closure of shops. tight security measures, including deployment of additional forces in communally sensitive areas, have been undertaken.
</div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: 0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="0" width="23.3%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" middle="" background-color:="" cccccc=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="" class="whitehead">read this story in...</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="C://images//spacer.gif" alt="C://images//spacer.gif" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal">Â <img src="C://DOCUME~1//ADMINI~1//LOCALS~1//Temp//cms_files//2451388-open//images//bullet.gif" alt="C://DOCUME~1//ADMINI~1//LOCALS~1//Temp//cms_files//2451388-open//images//bullet.gif" border="0" />Â <br /><a href="http://www.navbharattimes.com/articleshow.asp?articleid=2485487">hindi</a><br /><br /><br /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">the delhi police had held meetings with intellectuals belonging to various communities seeking their cooperation to ensure peace in the capital. additional forces had been deployed in the walled city areas and some parts of east delhi to instill confidence among the members of the minority community. jama masjid imam syed bukhari urged the minority community to maintain restaint while delivering his speech during the friday afternoon prayers in the walled city. an estimated 10,000 people had gathered to hear the imam. he said that he was going to meet the prime minister again and seek the removal of the narendra modi government in gujarat. blaming the rss and the vhp for the gujarat violence, he said the government must immediately ban these two organisations along with bajrang dal. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">vhp activists target best, train service</span> mumbai: train services have resumed in the city after the day-long bandh called by maharashtra unit of vishwa hindu parishad on friday had thrown rail and road services off gear early on friday. "the suburban train services were partially disrupted as vhp workers squatted on the rail route and put sleepers on the tracks at various places like malad, borivali, kandivali, grant road, thane and chembur," a railway spokesperson said. he claimed that trains are running 10-15 minutes behind schedule. best authorities said vhp workers pelted stones and deflated tyres of their buses in various parts of the city, affecting 15 per cent of its services. meanwhile, vhp general secretary prof vynkatesh abdeo said that at least 20 of their activists have been detained by police. however, joint commissioner v n deshmukh denied the claim. "all our men are on the roads," deshmukh said. "the situation is peaceful and fully under control," deshmukh, who personally supervised the security arrangements added. "there were no untoward incidents in mumbai as well as other parts of the state," spokesperson of the state police said. vhp and bajrang dal activists staged "rail roko" at badlapur and dombivali disrupting the train service. the shops and business establishments in adjoining thane district were closed. also the educational institutions took a day''s break. abdeo claimed that the bandh has evoked good response in aurangabad, jalna, nasik, parbhani, nanded, pune, raigad, ratnagiri, sindudurg and vidrabha region. bjp, bharatiya mazdoor sangh, rss and some trade organiations have extended their support to the day-long bandh. though shiv sena has extended ''moral support'' to the stir, they have decided not to take ''active'' part in the day-long agitation, the sena supremo bal thackeray said in a statement in the party mouth-piece saamna. in nagpur, there were no reports of any untoward incidents. shops and educational institions, however, remained closed. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">bandh hits life in karnataka</span> the day-long nation-wide bandh called by the vhp to protest the killings of <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">kar sevaks </span>in godhra evoked a "partial to near total" response in several parts of karnataka with stray incidents of violence reported in kolar. incidents of arson and stone pelting were reported in kolar town where a company of rapid action force has been rushed to. the situation there was under control, director general of police v v bhaskar told reporters. life was normal in bangalore which was exempted from the bandh call. reports said near total bandh was observed in mysore and the response was more than "70 per cent" in chamarajnagar, belgaum, hubli, mangalore, udupi and chikamagalur districts and partial in madikeri, dharwad, davangere, shimoga and karwar. bhaskar said the state government had requested the centre to provide eight companies of raf but received only one. a state-wide "red alert" has already been sounded and patrolling intensified in sensitive areas and police told to deal firmly with "communal goondas", the police chief said. a mysore report said the bandh there was almost complete with commercial establishments downing shutters, buses off the roads and schools and other educational institutions closed. barring the stray incidents in kolar, no other untoward incidents have been reported in any other part of the state, police said. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">ayodhya under tight security</span> ayodhya was peaceful under tight security. two persons were reportedly killed early morning in aligarh. lucknow remained peaceful but tense. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">bihar peaceful</span> reports from patna said the situation was peaceful in the city. no incidents were reported from other parts of bihar as well. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">tension in malda, murshidabad</span> two incidents of violence have been reported from west bengal so far. stone throwning incidents were reported from jaguli station limits at nadia district. police has arrested vhp activists in malda and the situation was tense in murshidabad also. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">hubli calm</span> in karnataka, the situation was reported to be calm, including in communally sensitive areas like hubli. the vhp said they are calling off the bandh in karnataka because they did not have enough time to prepare for it. <span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">police fire on air in kishangarh</span> curfew was imposed in kishangarh town of ajmer district after members of two communities clashed during the vhp-sponsored bandh on friday prompting the police to open fire in the air. the trouble erupted in madanganj-kishanganj police areas when hundreds of vhp activists tried to forcibly close down shops in the roadside markets on the jaipur-ajmer highway, police said. the two sides hurled stones intermittently for at least two hours forcing the police to open fire in the air, they said. there were no reports of any casualties. the situation in the area was tense and additional forces have been rushed there, they said. elsewhere in the desert state, the bandh was peaceful with the police keeping a high alert, official reports said. both the government and the private educational institutions have been ordered closed by the respective district administration in view of the bandh call. prohibitory orders were promulgated in several towns, including the jaipur, to maintain law and order situation. markets remained closed even in remote areas and private city buses were off the road. however, the state-run city buses were plying as usual. a private bus was stoned in jaipur following which private bus services came to a halt. cbse and rajasthan board of secondary education examinations were held as per schedule with police guarding the exam centres. reports from ajmer, jodhpur and udaipur said the towns were observing complete bandh. <span style="" 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