In a first, BSF hoists tricolour at remote Naxal base in Odisha's Mohupadar

A Border Security Force (BSF) special anti-Naxal operations unit hoisted the national flag for the first time at a remote Naxal base in Odisha's Mohupadar.

A special anti-Naxal operations squad of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday marked Independence Day by hoisting the national flag for the first time at a newly-created base in a remote Maoist violence-hit region of Odisha, officials said. The company operating base (COB) of the border guarding force is located at Mohupadar, about 90 km from the district headquarters and deep inside the jungles along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border.