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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June the 2nd.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Celebrations have greeted the creation of India's newest state of Telangana, marking
00:16the formal division of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
00:20Thousands of people cheered as regional political leader Chandrashekhar Rao attended a victory
00:24parade soon after he was sworn in as Telangana's chief minister.
00:29At least 18 schoolchildren and three drivers were injured after their school bus collided
00:34with a car and veered into another direction to collide with a truck in Ras al-Khaimah
00:39on Sunday afternoon.
00:41Brigadier Ghanim Ahmed Ghanim, Director-General of Central Operations Command, said the accident
00:46took place when the school bus was on its way to drop students to their homes.
00:51On a landmark visit to Tehran, Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah's delegation
00:56signed six memoranda of understanding with Iran, including ones on security cooperation
01:02and tourism.
01:04The Emir is also expected to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
01:09The mystery of how Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 flew into oblivion and the challenge
01:15of finding new ways to track aircraft hangs over the annual conference of airlines that
01:21opened in Doha today.
01:23The main purpose of this 70th annual meeting, organized by the International Air Transport
01:28Association, is to enable its 240 members accounting for 84% of global air traffic to
01:35talk about business prospects for the sector.
01:39Kolkata Knight Riders rode a brilliant 94 by Manish Pandey to beat Kings XI Punjab by
01:45three wickets and win their Indian Premier League in Bangalore last night.
01:50The Knights scored 200-7 in reply to a steep target of 199-4 posted by Kings XI.
01:58Justin Bieber is apologizing after a years-old video surfaced showing the then-teenager telling
02:04a racist joke with the n-word.
02:07In a statement, Bieber said when he was a kid, he didn't realize how certain words
02:12could hurt.
02:13He says he learned from his mistakes and apologized for them and now is apologizing again because
02:19they have become public.
02:21And finally the weather, the daytime temperature will be 42 degrees celsius falling to 28 at
02:26night.
02:27That's all for now.
02:28Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com