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Maoist gunned down in gun battle in Odisha

The Special Operation Group (SOG), an elite Commando unit of the Odisha police, on Thursday gunned down a maoist cadre of outlawed the Communist Party of India (Maoist) outfit in a dense forest area along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border in Malkangiri district

Odisha EOW freezes Rs 1.45 crore of fake loan app operator

The EOW probed into an allegation of Sakti Prasad Dash of Bhubaneswar regarding the harassment, extortion, mental torture by the recovery agents of the digital loan app “Kredit Gold” by sending the humiliating, abusive messages and morphed photographs, it said.

Odisha’s maritime traditions reinforced at Bali Jatra

The eastern state of Odisha celebrated Bali Jatra from 8 to 16 November 2022. It is a major Boita Bandana festival held on Kartik Purnima, at Cuttack on the bank of Mahanadi to mark the day when ancient Sadhabas (ancient Odia mariners) would set sail to distant lands of Bali, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo in Indonesia and Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) for trade and cultural relations.