Andhra Pradesh Malkangiri District

Six members of CPI (Maoist) were killed in an alleged exchange of fire with the Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh Police in Visakhapatnam district today, while a gunbattle took place between security forces and Maoists in Odisha's Malkangiri district.

A high alert has been sounded in the Maoist-affected southern Odisha districts, including Kandhamal and Gajapati, after the rebels suffered heavy casualty in an encounter with security forces along the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border.

With the severe cyclonic storm 'Hudhud' 610 km from the state's coast, the Odisha government today deployed rescue teams at vulnerable places and asked district collectors to begin evacuation of people, particularly in tribal dominated Malkangiri district.

Armed Maoists blew up a block office building at Padia in Odisha's Malkangiri district early today using powerful explosives, police said.

Three weeks after her husband surrendered before the police, a woman Maoist leader, involved in many crimes in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, followed suit in Malkangiri district today.

Six members of CPI (Maoist) were killed in an alleged exchange of fire with the Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh Police in Visakhapatnam district today, while a gunbattle took place between security forces and Maoists in Odisha's Malkangiri district.

A high alert has been sounded in the Maoist-affected southern Odisha districts, including Kandhamal and Gajapati, after the rebels suffered heavy casualty in an encounter with security forces along the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border.

With the severe cyclonic storm 'Hudhud' 610 km from the state's coast, the Odisha government today deployed rescue teams at vulnerable places and asked district collectors to begin evacuation of people, particularly in tribal dominated Malkangiri district.

Armed Maoists blew up a block office building at Padia in Odisha's Malkangiri district early today using powerful explosives, police said.

Three weeks after her husband surrendered before the police, a woman Maoist leader, involved in many crimes in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, followed suit in Malkangiri district today.