Big changes are signaled on India’s political landscape – Mexico kills the founder of a major drug cartel – Brazil’s warning to tourists is a chilling admission of a big problem – Stuff explodes – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Several exit polls indicate that conservative Hindu nationalist Narenda Modi is on track to win India’s general election.  Exit polls are notoriously inaccurate in India, but pre-election polls pointed to an impending win for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).  The long-ruling Congress Party is widely seen as corrupt and ineffective, and the BJP has based its campaign on fighting corruption, inflation, and unemployment.  The votes from the month-long election will be counted on Friday.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is going to Kiev to try and find a way to a diplomatic solution to Ukraine’s crisis in the east.  Moscow hasn’t jumped at the request to annex the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as requested by pro-Russian separatists who claimed a mandate in their secession referenda over the weekend.  Steinmeier considers the referendums illegal, adding: “We cannot, and must not, take it seriously.”

Mexico’s security officials say the army killed the founder of the notorious Zetas drugs cartel in a gun battle in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.  They finally got to Galindo Mellado Cruz in his hideout in the city of Reynosa.  Mellado was on the run after escaping from prison where he had been jailed after being accused of armed robbery, rape and murder.  The Zetas control the most territory of any of the drugs cartels, and is famous for its violent methods, such as beheading its enemies and hanging their bodies from bridges.

Brazil’s advice to foreign tourists coming to see the World Cup is a tacit admission that the country has a crime problem.  Police are making up brochures for tourists warning them not to scream if they get robbed – it might incite the robber to murder them.  Robberies that end in murder are up 9 percent this year in Sao Paulo, and at the highest point in almost a decade.  

The purported health benefits of drinking red wine have been “over-hyped” – so says scientists from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Tracking 800 villagers in the Chianti region of Italy, they found no proof that the compound Resveratrol – which is found in red wine, dark chocolate, and dark berries – stops heart disease or prolongs life.  Professor Richard Semba says, “The story of Resveratrol turns out to be another case where you get a lot of hype about health benefits that doesn't stand the test of time.”

A police officer was shot to death answering a domestic disturbance call, just before the duplex home where it went down exploded on live television.  This happened in a planned community for people over 55 in New Hampshire (really?  Not Texas?) in America’s northeast.  The son of the unit owner is suspected.  Frankly, I’m just running this story because you don’t see houses exploding everyday.  Maybe in Texas.

Three workers and a railway line are being charged with criminal negligence in Canada, in the derailment and explosion of an oil train in the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec in July of last year.  47 people were killed and the town’s central business district was destroyed by fire.  The train’s engineer was specifically cited for failing to set the hand brakes, which could have prevented the train from careening out of control down a grade to the point where it derailed and exploded.

While most of the crew of the capsized Sewol ferry has been roundly condemned in South Korea, Seoul is honoring the three crewmembers who didn’t abandon ship and died trying to evacuate passengers.  Jung Hyun-seon, Kim Ki-Woong, and Park Ji-young were named “martyrs”.  More than 300 people died when the ferry capsized a month ago, and the captain and several crewmembers have been charged criminally.