Hardcore Maoist Badhan Bhuian held in Gaya

Police arrested hardcore Maoist, Badhan Bhuian, from Tarchuan forest area under Chhakharbandha police station area in Gaya on Tuesday.
Bhuian was involved in several Maoist incidents and wanted by Bihar and the Jharkhand police for the last 19 years. On Tuesday, the police laid a trap and arrested the hardcore Maoist from Tarchuan forest area.
Kashyap taken to Chennai on remand: Youtuber Manish Kashyap alias Tripurari Tiwari, accused of sharing false videos of alleged attack on Bihari workers in Tamil Nadu, was taken to Chennai on a transit remand by a Tamil Nadu police team on Wednesday, after the chief judicial magistrate, Patna, granted it 14-day police remand. He has been booked under several sections of the IPC and the IT Act in Bihar and Tamil Nadu.
New BJP co-incharge: BJP national president J P Nadda on Wednesday appointed Sunil Oja as the co-incharge of the party's Bihar affairs, indicating that the national brass is focused on strengthening its stakes in Bihar, ahead of the 2024 parliamentary and 2025 assembly elections.Prior to it, Oja was the co-incharge of the party's affairs in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, with special attention on Varanasi parliamentary constituency represented by PM Narendra Modi, and also eastern UP. "Oja had been the co-incharge of UP since 2014, when Modi contested the Varanasi parliamentary constituency first time," Bihar BJP spokesman Prem Ranjan Patel said, adding that Oja, a resident of Bhavnagar in Gujarat, represented this assembly constituency in the Gujarat assembly twice.
Railway inspection: Commissioner of railway safety (CRS), eastern circle, Kolkata, S Mitra inspected newly the laid tracks between Chakia and Jiwdhara, a stretch of 23km on Muzaffarpur-Sugauli route under ECR jurisdiction on Wednesday. He also inspected a successful trial of a passenger train on this route.
Hallmarking of gold jewellery must: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has mandated the sale of gold jewelleries with new hallmark unique identification number system effective from April 1. Under the rules of BIS Act 2016, every piece of gold jewellery will bear a unique six character alphanumerical code engraved on it which will contain the number of carat of gold.