LIVE news updates: Amid Tirupati laddu controversy, Puri will test ghee at Jagannath Temple

Following the controversy over suspected adulteration in the ghee used for making laddoos at Andhra Pradesh's Sri Venkateswara temple in Tirupati, officials in Puri district, Odisha, have decided to test the quality of ghee utilized at the Jagannath Temple. Puri Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain stated that though there were no claims of ghee adulteration at their temple, the administration intends to conduct quality tests to dispel any potential concerns. Swain informed reporters in Puri the officials will confer with Omfed, the state's premier milk cooperative, to establish a benchmark for the ghee used at the shrine.

Hezbollah on Tuesday confirmed the death of one of its top commanders, Ibrahim Kobeisi, who was killed in an Israeli strike in a southern Beirut suburb. The strike hit three floors of a six-story building. It was Israel's third strike over Beirut in less than a week Kobeissi is the first member of the militant group pronounced dead since Israel and Hezbollah entered a more intense phase of the ongoing conflict. Israel said Kobeisi was a top Hezbollah commander with the group's rocket and missile unit. Israeli military officials said Kobeisi was responsible for launches towards Israel and planned a 2000 attack in which three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped and killed.