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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, September 15th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:12A host of development projects will be implemented by the Investment Corporation of Dubai over
00:17the next three years to help boost national economy. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin
00:22Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on
00:27Sunday gave the go-ahead for the projects.
00:31Top Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone on Sunday took to Twitter to blast a leading
00:36Indian English-language daily for publishing a tawdry web gallery of pictures of her cleavage.
00:43The video stills, featured on Times of India's website, appear to be shot from above. The
00:48news portal responded to her tweets by calling the gallery a compliment.
00:53Many of Deepika's peers and fans, including actor Boman Irani, director Farah Khan, Alia
00:58Bhatt and Ileana D'Cruz, have backed her cause on Twitter.
01:03The first eight months of this year recorded 115 road deaths and 1,510 injured in 1,783
01:13traffic accidents in Dubai, traffic police statistics showed.
01:17Colonel Jamal al-Bannai said the statistics cover the period from January 1 to August
01:2331.
01:24US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet foreign ministers from around the world in
01:29Paris today to discuss how to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants. About
01:3540 countries, including 10 Arab states, have signed up to a coalition to help fight ISIL
01:41in Iraq and Syria.
01:44British Prime Minister David Cameron makes his last visit to Scotland today ahead of
01:48this week's independence referendum. With polls predicting a very tight race, Cameron
01:54is hoping to boost the no vote. Queen Elizabeth II, meanwhile, made her first comment on the
02:00referendum saying, I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
02:06Employees in the UAE are in line for an average of 4.8 per cent pay rise in 2015, according
02:14to US human resources firm Aon Hewitt. The figure, released as part of the firm's annual
02:20global salary increase survey, is higher than this year's average salary increase of 4.6
02:26per cent in the UAE.
02:28And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:33to 29 degrees at night.
02:35That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news at
02:39gulfnews.com