The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, decapitating what had become Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel and thrusting swaths of the nation into chaos.

A new US-military-led task force specialising in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as ‘El Mencho,’ a US defense official told Reuters.

Gold and silver prices witnessed a notable uptick on Monday on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX). Gold futures for April were trading at Rs 1,59,886 per 10 grams, a rise of Rs 3,010, or 1.92 per cent, as of 09:10 am.