00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, February the 27th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Uncertainty is continuing in the repatriation of Indian actress Sridevi's body as legal
00:15formalities are yet to be finished in Dubai.
00:18Bipul, the Consul General of India in Dubai, told Gulf News this morning that the mission
00:23had not received any update on the same.
00:26According to Dubai Police, initial investigations show the Bollywood actress drowned following
00:31loss of consciousness in the bathtub of a hotel room.
00:35They found traces of alcohol in her body and this may have led to the accident.
00:41Dubai Police has transferred the case to Dubai Public Prosecution which will carry out regular
00:47legal procedures followed in such cases.
00:51Sources also told Gulf News that Dubai Police had called in Sridevi's husband Boney Kapoor
00:56to Bardubai Police Station for investigation.
01:00Police took his statement after which he was allowed to go back to his hotel.
01:05Ravi Bhopara's half-century and Shahid Afridi's three-wicket spell helped the Karachi Kings
01:11beat Lahore Columbus.
01:14The Kings continued their winning run in the eighth match of Pakistan Super League at the
01:19Dubai International Stadium on Monday night.
01:22Jinn, Netflix's first Arabic original series, is set to launch globally in 2019.
01:30The six-episode run will follow a group of teenagers whose lives are disrupted by the
01:35appearance of a Jinn or supernatural creature in the form of a boy in Petra.
01:41Friendships and budding romances are tested as they go up against a greater darkness seeking
01:46to destroy the world.
01:48And finally for weather, today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius dropping
01:53to 22 degrees at night.
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