A major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing more than 4,200 people and flattening thousands of buildings as rescuers dug with bare hands for survivors. Hours after the announcement made by the Prime Minister's Office, India has dispatched the first batch of earthquake relief material to Turkey aboard an Indian Air Force aircraft. The Supreme Court will today hear a plea challenging the appointment of lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as a judge of the Madras High Court, just fifteen minutes before her swearing-in. President Joe Biden said on Monday that relations between Washington and Beijing were not weakened by the United States' downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the weekend.
