Places in news: Angul (TH, pg 5) Odisha’s Angul is one of Ind | Prelims Specific Notes for IAS/clevernotes

Places in news: Angul (TH, pg 5)

Odisha’s Angul is one of India’s largest coal producing districts. Angul currently accounts for 12% of India’s and 56% of Odisha’s coal production.

Places in news: Deir Ez-Zor (TH, pg 14)
The U.S. military carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Deir Ez-Zor is a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields.
Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area and have often been the target of Israeli war planes in previous strikes.