Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Thousands gather to mourn Jayaram Jayalalitha. Proposal to cut 125 billion dollars from Pentagon budget was buried. Mariah Carey to perform at Dubai Jazz Festival.
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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. Jalalitha, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State, died late on Monday after surgery
00:25following a heart attack a day earlier. A sea of weeping mourners surged towards the
00:30steps of a public hall where Jalalitha's body, draped in the Indian flag, was kept
00:35on a raised platform. Thousands of police officers formed chains to stop the heaving
00:41crowd from surging up the 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
01:30Post said.
01:32Thirteen years after her last concert in Dubai, Mariah Carey is coming back. The best-selling
01:38female artist of all time will perform at the 15th Emirates Airline Dubai Jazz Festival
01:44at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on February 23, one day before Latin pop prince Enrique
01:50Iglesias. At 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. Today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:10to 20 degrees at night.