Ganesh Uike, a Maoist central committee member who was in charge of Maoist operations in Odisha, was killed in an overnight gunfight with a joint team of security forces in the state’s Kandhamal district, police said on Thursday.
Security has been tightened in tribal-dominated Kandhamal district ahead of Christmas on Thursday.“A total of 27 platoons of forces along with 85 police officers have been deployed in sensitive areas, ...