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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