Thousands gather to mourn Jayaram Jayalalitha - GN Headlines
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, December 6. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:08Hundreds of thousands of people are gathering in the southern Indian city of Chennai to
00:14pay respect to their beloved leader, Jayaram Jalalitha, a former film actress and popular
00:19politician.
00:20Jalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, died late on Monday after surgery following
00:26a heart attack a day earlier.
00:28A sea of weeping mourners surged towards the steps of a public hall where Jalalitha's
00:33body, draped in the Indian flag, was kept on a raised platform.
00:38Thousands of police officers formed chains to stop the heaving crowd from surging up
00:42the steps.
00:43In New Delhi, lawmakers observed a minute's silence today before both houses of parliament
00:49were adjourned for the day in respect for the woman who many refer to as Amma or Mother.
00:56A US Defense Department study that proposed cutting $125 billion in administrative waste
01:03from the Pentagon budget was buried amid concerns the findings would give Congress an excuse
01:09to further slash defense spending, The Washington Post reported.
01:13The report, issued in January 2015, identified a clear path for the Pentagon to save the
01:19money over five years by streamlining the bureaucracy through attrition and early retirements,
01:25curtailing the use of contractors and making better use of information technology, the
01:31Post said.
01:32Thirteen years after her last concert in Dubai, Mariah Carey is coming back.
01:38The best-selling female artist of all time will perform at the 15th Emirates Airline
01:42Dubai Jazz Festival at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on February 23, one day before Latin pop
01:49prince Enrique Iglesias.
01:51At 46, Carey has the most number-one singles, 18, of any solo artist in history.
01:57Tickets to see Mariah Carey start at 395 dirhams and are available on Ticketmaster.ai from
02:03noon today.
02:05And finally, the weather.
02:06Today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping to 20 degrees at night.
02:12That's all for now.
02:13Thanks for watching.
02:14And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com