India news: Long queues hit stores as new iPhones go on sale

Here is a roundup of some of the top headlines from across India on Friday, September 18: Tired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the "Star" or "Preferred" to keep DW News at the top of your feed. Hello! This is Seerat at DW's Studio Delhi, starting the day off on a relatively peaceful note, about 6 kilometers (four miles) from all the madness (read: the Apple store on launch day). Long queues snaked around Apple stores across the country as the new iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max hit the market in India. These might be some of the most expensive phones in history, but that hasn't deterred die-hard fans.