The second Duronto Express – the superfast, non-stop, point-point train – has started service between Chennai Central station and Hazrat Nizamuddin station in Delhi.

With the Chennai Metro Rail project receiving a green signal from the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs of the Union Government in a meeting headed by India's external affair minister Pranab Mukherjee on 28 Jan 2009, the commuters in Chennai can now breathe a sigh of relief.