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A major illegal operation has come to light in Malkangiri district's remote Tulasi Hill, where an Andhra Pradesh-based contractor is allegedly conducting unauthorised stone blasting and also looting valuable mineral resources under the guise of road construction, thereby causing significant revenue loss to Odisha, sources said on Tuesday.

According to sources, a large-scale corruption scandal has surfaced in Odisha's Malkangiri under the pretext of road construction work. Severe illegal activities are underway in the Tulasi Hill of Mathili block, where a contractor from Andhra Pradesh is openly blasting hills and extracting ston...