Airlines were on fresh alert late on Monday after Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Iraq, and Kuwait closed their countries’ airspace temporarily as Iran attacked the Al Udeid US military base in Doha, the latest upheaval to air travel in the Middle East.

Air India has cancelled all its flights over the Gulf region until further notice, hours after Iran launched a missile attack on the US air base in Doha. It had earlier cancelled one of its Qatar flights scheduled from Cochin.

Popular Tamil and Telugu film actor Srikanth has been remanded to judicial custody till July 7 by a Chennai court in connection with a cocaine-related case.