Top 10 world news: Hezbollah gets new chief; massive drug bust near Delhi, and more
Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday (Oct 29) declared Sheikh Naim Qassem as its new chief after former leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Israeli strikes. Moreover, the announcement comes after Israel killed Nasrallah’s potential heir Safieddine earlier this month.
In other news, India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday busted a clandestine methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory in Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region), which has been linked to the Mexican drug cartel – Cartel De Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
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Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday (Oct 29) declared Sheikh Naim Qassem as its new chief, weeks after Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut. The Iran-backed group said in a statement, “Hezbollah's (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect... Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general of Hezbollah." Qassem has been one of the most visible faces of Hezbollah in recent years, even after Nasrallah went underground after the group’s 2006 war with Israel.
India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday (Oct 29) said that they had busted a clandestine methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory in Gautam Budh Nagar of Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region).
Israel’s opposition has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not being transparent about the Israel Defense Forces’ casualties in the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza. Opposition leader Yair Lapid claimed Monday (Oct 29) that more than 12,000 soldiers have been affected to date since the war started on October 7 last year. "Eleven thousand soldiers were injured and 890 others killed,” Lapid claimed.
India’s top election body on Tuesday (Oct 29) rubbished the Congress party’s allegations of irregularities in the recentpolls in Haryana state. The Election Commission of India said the Congress party is raising smoke of ‘generic doubts,’ stressing that each step in the whole process was carried out flawlessly.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison on Tuesday (Oct 29), after serving a four-month sentence for defying subpoenas in the congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.
Twelve people died and around 30 other passengers got injured after a private bus crashed into the wing wall of a flyover in Rajasthan's Sikar district on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
However polarised the United States presidential elections may have become, one thing that remains common across the aisles is the profound visibility of people with roots here in India.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday (Oct 29) said that its troops have achieved their goals in Lebanon and that the Israeli government can now go ahead with promoting a diplomatic resolution to end the conflict in the country's north.
Harshit Rana is all set to join India squad for the third and final Test against New Zealand. The final match of the series is set to be played from November 1 in Mumbai's Wankhede stadium and Rana will join the squad on Wednesday (Oct 30).
Two new legal cases were filed against music producer Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The first case claims he harmed a young child at a hotel in New York in 2005. The second case states he harmed a teenager who wanted to be on his TV show Making the Band in 2008.
