00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulp News update for Sunday, March the 19th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Chuck Berry, who duck-walked his way into the pantheon of rock and roll pioneers as
00:12one of its most influential guitarists and lyricists, has died at his Missouri home.
00:18Police in St. Charles County said they were called to the 90-year-old Berry's home on
00:22Saturday by a caretaker and found him unresponsive.
00:26Efforts to revive him failed and he was pronounced dead at 1.26 pm local time.
00:32Considered one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, Berry was present at its infancy
00:37in the 1950s and emerged as its first star guitarist and songwriter.
00:44The swearing-in ceremony of Yogi Adityanath as the 21st Chief Minister of India's northern
00:49state of Uttar Pradesh took place this afternoon.
00:52Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah were among the hundreds
00:57who gathered for the ceremony in the state capital, Lucknow.
01:00Two Deputy Chief Ministers, Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya, also took the oath.
01:07His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister
01:10of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, has appointed Abdullah Al-Habbai as Chairman of Dubai Holding.
01:16Al-Habbai will take on the new position in addition to his other role as Chairman of
01:21Miras Holding.
01:23Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he has made a decision on his future and will make
01:28it public very soon.
01:30Wenger said after seeing his side humbled 3-1 at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday that
01:36he has decided whether to stay with Arsenal when his contract expires at the end of the
01:42season.
01:43Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the new live-action adaptation of the studio's 1991 animated
01:49classic, is on its way to shattering box office records.
01:53The film has already raked in an estimated $63.8 million in over 4,200 theatres in the
02:00United States and Canada.
02:02The PG-rated remake is projected to end the weekend on a $170 million-plus high note.
02:10And finally, the weather.
02:11Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius dropping to 28 degrees at night.
02:16That's all for now.
02:17Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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