LIVE updates: India sends more relief material to quake-hit Turkey, Syria

Live news updates: India on Saturday sent additional consignments of life-saving medicines and relief material for earthquake victims of Turkey and Syria onboard a C-17 military transport aircraft. It is the seventh flight carrying relief material under India's 'Operation Dost' which was launched to provide assistance to the two countries after they were hit by a devastating quake on Monday that has killed over 20,000 people.

An Indian national missing in Turkiye since the massive earthquake on February 6 was found dead in the rubble of a hotel where he was staying. Vijay Kumar Gaud, who hailed from Uttarakhand's Pauri district and was working for a Bengaluru-based company, had gone to Turkiye on an official assignment. 

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing an election rally in Tripura said that voting for the Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) would facilitate the return of violence and corruptions in the state. In a scathing attack against the CPI-M, Modi without taking names said that one party rule existed in the state earlier and the flag of the same party was the only one seen during elections. 

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off Indonesia's North Sulawesi province on Saturday, but did not cause any damage or casualties, disaster agency officials and weather agency said.