Top Maoist Ganesh Uike, with ₹1.1 crore bounty, killed in Odisha

Security forces in Odisha neutralised a top Maoist commander on Thursday. Ganesh Uike, 69, a high-ranking central committee member of the CPI (Maoist) and head of its Odisha operations, was killed by teams of the Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force in the Rampa forest area. He was carrying a bounty of ₹1.1 crore.