Highlights: 3.4-magnitude earthquake hits Katra in Jammu and Kashmir

An earthquake of 3.4 magnitude hit the Katra belt of Jammu and Kashmir Monday night, news agency PTI reported quoting officials.

There was no casualty or damage to property reported from anywhere, they said.

6.3-magnitude earthquake rocks Turkey, Syria again, reports news agency Reuters. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the demise of former governor and Bharatiya Janata Party leader OP Kohli saying that he played a key role in strengthening the party in Delhi.

Former governor OP Kohli was 87 years old when he passed away. Kohli was the 19th governor of Gujarat from 2014 to 2019.

Three more residential houses and a 33-kV power transmission line were damaged due to "sinking" of land in the hilly Duksar Dalwa village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, PTI reported quoting officials on Monday.

A team of Geological Survey of India (GSI) is visiting the village on Tuesday to ascertain the reasons for the sudden "sinking" of land, which has so far rendered 16 families homeless besides damaging a 500-metre stretch of now closed Sangaldan-Gool road, the officials said.

Former Gujarat governor and veteran BJP leader from Delhi O P Kohli passed away on Monday, according to a Delhi BJP statement.

Kohli, a former president of the party's Delhi unit, was unwell for the past two to three months and he passed away at a hospital in Noida. He was 87 years old, BJP leaders said.

Two Naxalites with a cumulative reward of ₹10 lakh on their heads were held by Gadchiroli police on Monday while working in a security firm and car showroom in Hyderabad in Telangana after being on the run since 2006, PTI reported quoting an official.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan gets preventive bail from arrest by court in eastern city of Lahore in prohibited funding case, reports Geo TV. 

An Air India flight from New York to Delhi (AI-102) on Monday was diverted to London due to a medical emergency onboard, news agency ANI reported quoting an official.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has asked a parliamentary committee to investigate the alleged breach of privilege by 12 opposition MPs from the Congress and the AAP for repeatedly entering the well of the House, shouting slogans and obstructing its proceedings, reports PTI.

According to a Rajya Sabha bulletin, nine of the MPs are from the Congress and three from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Billionaire Gautam Adani’s ports unit will prepay a short-term debt due next month amounting to 10 billion rupees ($121 million) as the Indian tycoon attempts to soothe investors following a short seller attack that has put his empire’s financial health under the scanner. Read more

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has decided against bidding for a stake in state-backed electricity trader PTC India Ltd., people familiar with the matter said, as his business empire looks to preserve cash amid criticism from a US short-seller. Read more

Hitting out at the Congress party, union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said there was no vindictive politics in raids carried out by investigative agencies as they amass ample proof against the accused persons. Read more

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has been summoned by CBI on February 26 in liquor policy case. Read more

Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is likely to arrest Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan in a prohibited funding case, Pakistani news channel ARY News reported citing sources. Read more

After successfully running medical relief operations in quake-hit Turkey, a 99-member Army medical team that ran field hospitals in Iskenderun and Hatay landed in India on Monday. Read more

Uber Technologies will introduce 25,000 electric vehicles (EVs) in India for ride-sharing over three years, its country head said on Monday, its first move to adopt clean cars.

The EVs will be bought by Uber's fleet partners from Tata Motors, India's biggest electric carmaker, Prabhjeet Singh, president, Uber India and South Asia told Reuters.

The latest example of 'third-grade' vendetta politics was witnessed in Raipur this morning, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Monday referring to the raids conducted by Enforcement Directorate on premises linked to Congress leaders in an alleged coal levy scam in Chhattisgarh. The ED searched the premises linked to Congress leaders days ahead of the party's three-day plenary session in Raipur. Over 10,000 Congress functionaries and senior leaders are set to participate in the event starting February 24.

Former MP and 1984 riots accused Jagdish Tytle featured in the list released by the Delhi Congress of 61 elected and co-opted members of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for this year on Sunday.

Over a dozen houses were damaged due to a massive landslide in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district on Monday. Affected families have been moved to safer locations.

Nearly 100 legislators of the Samajwadi Party on Monday protested against the Uttar Pradesh government outside the Vidhan Sabha in Lucknow ahead of the commencement of the state assembly session. Akhilesh Yadav's party leaders were seen holding placards with slogans such as “bulldozers”, “sugar cane dues”, “unemployment” and “law and order” as they sat on a dharna at the main portico of the Vidhan Sabha building.

Ahead of three-day 85th plenary session of Congress party in Raipur, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday is conducting raids at locations linked to eight Congress leaders and office bearers in a money laundering case linked to alleged coal levy scam in Chhattisgarh.

Over a dozen residential houses were damaged in a massive landslide in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, rendering 13 families homeless, officials said on Sunday.

The sports department of Meghalaya denied permission to the BJP to host an election rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the PA Sangma Stadium in Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma’s home constituency of South Tura, citing construction work at the venue, PTI reported.

The Budget Session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly will begin on Monday.

The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad accused the Left-backed student outfits of vandalising the portrait of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on his birth anniversary at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday, while JNU Students' Union alleged that ABVP activists attacked some students after a march seeking justice for an IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki who allegedly died by suicide recently. The ABVP, however, has denied the charge.