00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, August 19.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09UAE residents and Indian expatriates have stepped up their efforts to help flood victims
00:14in Kerala.
00:16The UAE rulers' call to support Kerala has attracted heartfelt expressions of gratitude
00:21on social media.
00:23Indian expatriates said it has strengthened their resolve to support their compatriots
00:28in crisis.
00:29Almost all of more than a million expatriates from Kerala along with fellow Indians are
00:34actively working with community organizations across the UAE to help the flood victims.
00:40The death toll has risen to 357 so far.
00:44The damages have been put at 10.28 billion dirhams.
00:49Indian shooters Apoorvi Chandula and Ravi Kumar bagged the bronze medal in the 10-meter
00:54air rifle mixed team event at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta today.
00:59The Indian pair scored 429.9 in the final round to finish on the podium.
01:05Chinese Taipei won the gold with a score of 494.1 while China took silver with 492.5.
01:13China's Sun Peiwen meanwhile won the first gold medal awarded at the 18th Asian Games,
01:20winning Wushu's Chang Kwan discipline ahead of local hope Edgar Marvella.
01:24After months of speculation, global star Priyanka Chopra finally made her relationship official
01:30with singer Nick Jonas, as the couple got engaged in an intimate ceremony in Mumbai.
01:36Following a traditional Hindu roka or engagement ceremony at Priyanka's home on Saturday, the
01:41couple partied the night away with their celebrity friends Alia Bhatt, Parineeti Chopra and the
01:47industrialist family the Ambani's.
01:50Priyanka announced her engagement to the world in an Instagram post with an image with Jonas.
01:55She wrote,
01:56Taken with all my heart and soul.
01:58The couple hasn't announced their official wedding date yet.
02:01And finally, the weather.
02:03Today's highs across the UAE would be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping to 30 degrees at night.
02:08That's all for now.
02:09Thanks for watching.
02:10And as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com
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