A curfew has been imposed in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir for a third consecutive day after violence in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley.
One person has been killed and another wounded after police again opened fire on demonstrators in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir.
More than 20 people were killed when security forces opened fire on protesters on Monday and Tuesday.
Protesters took to the streets to defy a third day-in-a-row of curfew in parts of the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley.
Tension is also high in the mainly Hindu region of Jammu. Two people were killed in communal clashes on Tuesday.
More than 20 people have died this week after police opened fire on protesters.
Police have been given orders to shoot demonstrators who defy a curfew in the town of Kishtwar, in Jammu.
The unrest began two months ago in the region when a small piece of land was awarded to a trust running a Hindu shrine - provoking Muslim anger.
At least four districts in the valley region - Baramulla, Bandipora, Pulwama and Shopian - remain under curfew for a third consecutive day, a BBC correspondent in Srinagar says.
The government then rescinded its decision, triggering furious counter-protests from Hindus in the Jammu region.
Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, and five other districts were hit by violence on Tuesday.
After years of relative calm, the demonstrations in the valley are the biggest since a separatist rebellion against Indian rule broke out nearly 20 years ago, analysts say.
Anger and shock
In Wednesday's fresh wave of protests, officials in Indian-administered Kashmir said a man was killed when police opened fire on protesters who were setting fire to government vehicles in Safakadal, downtown Srinagar.
Our correspondent says people in many parts of Srinagar came out of their homes before midnight on Tuesday and chanted pro-freedom slogans.
Protestors have hoisted Pakistani flags at several places in the valley on what is Pakistan's Independence Day.
Many of them assembled in mosques where they turned on loudspeakers to relay the slogans.
A curfew is continuing at several places in the Jammu region, though it is being relaxed from time to time.
This followed reports that the police had ransacked some homes in the city, and more than 30 people were injured when paramilitary forces fired at protesters in the valley.
A retired doctor has committed suicide in Jammu after asking the people to "intensify" the agitation, the police said.
The BBC's Altaf Hussain says there is anger and shock among people in the valley region over what they describe an excessive use of force by the police to break up protest demonstrations. Protests over land erupted in June
Dr Balwant Rai Khajuria, 62, consumed a fatal dose of poison and donated 1,100 rupees (£14; $26) to the protest organisers.
Protests and counter-protests have been taking place for weeks both in the Kashmir valley around Jammu, further south.
The BBC's Altaf Hussain in Srinagar says there is anger in the region over what some perceive as excessive use of force by the police to break up the demonstrations.
The demonstrations in the valley are some of the biggest since a separatist rebellion against Indian rule broke out nearly 20 years ago.
Tensions are rising and threaten peace hopes after years of relative calm. Correspondents say Kashmir is now dangerously polarised by a dispute which began over the control of a small piece of land.
Violent demonstrations began two months ago in the state when a decision to transfer a small area of land to the trust which runs a Hindu shrine provoked an angry Muslim reaction.
When the land transfer was abandoned, groups from the state's Hindu minority began furious protests of their own.
