Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay flagged off the first Phase 2 train of the Chennai Metro on Sunday, opening the 15-km Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch built at a cost of around Rs 4,900 crore.
A missile strike on the passenger terminal of Riyadh's international airport early Sunday killed 12 people and injured more than 300, Saudi civil aviation authorities said, in a sharp escalation of Middle East tensions.
A day after thousands were detained across Delhi during the Cockroach Janta Party's protest demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's resignation, party leaders were released on Sunday while youth groups vowed to continue the agitation and the Supreme Court took up pleas against the detentions.