Oil India Ltd firefighters—Durlav Gogoi, a former state football team goalkeeper, and Tikheswar Gohain—were killed trying to contain a massive fire that broke out at an oil well blowout site, barely 1.5 km from Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Tuesday. Many houses were damaged. Villages were emptied out after the blowout a fortnight ago.
Indian and Chinese troops have “disengaged” and returned to their previous positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh following military-level talks by both sides to defuse a faceoff since May 5 when soldiers clashed in Pangong Tso.
Reading the Communist Manifesto, Lenin’s works, Mao’s life, calling friends ‘Comrade’ and greeting them with ‘Lal Salaam’ are among the reasons cited by the NIA for charging farmer leader and social activist Akhil Gogoi of Assam under sedition and anti-terrorism laws. Gogoi and three other Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leaders were arrested for protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act last December.
