NEW DELHI: Dashing wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum was the first to be auctioned as he was bought for $900,000 by Kolkata Knight Riders followed by the Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who was clinched by Chennai Super Kings for whopping $2 million in the tie-breaker.

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Meanwhile KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan tweeted: Feel shy sitting on auction table with all the bigwigs…so waiting outside and enjoying a cuppa coffee brendon return to team…

Jadeja, who had a base price of $100,000, was bagged in a tie-breaker between Super Kings and Deccan Chargers.

The $2 million budget cap for the auction means Super Kings have spent all their money on a single player and cannot participate in the auction any more.

Delhi Daredevils bought all-rounder Andre Russel, who had a base price of $50,000, for $450,000 while Mitchell Johnson was bought at his base price by the Mumbai Indians for $300,000.

Deccan Chargers bought Parthiv Patel, who had a base price of $200,000, for $650,000 after quite a fight with the other franchises.

Rajasthan Royal bought Bradley Hodge for $475,000. Sri Lankan master batsman Mahela Jayawardene has been bought by Delhi Daredevils for $1.4 million.

Mumbai Indians bought Herschelle Gibbs for $50,000 while Dinesh Chandimal bought by Rajasthan Royals for $50,000. Both the players have been bought on their base prices.

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One of Bollywood’s most reclusive divas is all set to break free of her unapproachable image to reach out to thousands of women across the world.

Sridevi has so far restricted her limitless talents to her on-screen roles, keeping herself aloof from life beyond the camera and and beyond the domain of her domesticity.

That is about to change. The shy hermetic diva is about to come out and reach out to a very special galaxy of Indian women across the world: the NRI housewives who find themselves isolated in foreign lands due to linguistic constraints.

To rewind a bit, Sridevi in her comeback film ‘English Vinglish’ plays an Indian housewife in New York, compelled to grapple with a whole cultural transition.

Linguistic barriers play a very prominent part in the film. Sridevi will take the message of linguistic bridge-building beyond the film, to Indian housewives across the world via the digital and various other media.

Though the plans at this moment are absolutely hush-hush we’ve come to know that the producers of ‘English Vinglish’ plan to establish a rapport between Sridevi and NRI women through micro-blogging sites.

Says a source close to the project, “Sridevi who has never known a world outside her home and family would be addressing NRI women on Facebook. She will also open a Twitter account meant specificially for Indian women in distress, particular, linguistic distress, in any part of the world. In essence, she

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In true band baaja baarat style, Bollywood couple Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza tied the knot today according to Marathi traditions in the presence of Bollywood and political biggies.

The marriage came at the end of an eight-year-long courtship with Riteish (32) and Genelia (24) taking their vows around a sacred fire at the suburban Grand Hyatt hotel.

The groom, wearing a white sherwani and red ‘feta’ (turban), entered the hotel riding a white ‘ghodi’. Genelia wore a red and gold lehenga designed by Ritu Kumar.

The ‘baaraat’ started from the grounds near Grand Hyatt. Amidst the singing and dancing, Riteish, with his face covered with a ‘sehra’ (flower veil), waved excitedly while sitting on the horse.

The actor’s Congress minister father Vilasrao Deshmukh was dressed in a brown sherwani.

Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Subodh Kant Sahay, Sunil Tatkare and Johny Joseph were among the political figures present at the wedding.

B-town guests present included Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Kajol and Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Sajid Khan, Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor, Ashutosh Gowariker, Sajid Nadiadwala, Satish Shah, Asin, Jacky Bhagnani, Vashu Bhagnani, Ramesh Taurani, Nishka and Neeta Lulla.

Riteish took to Twitter last night, saying, “Saw the Last sunset as a Bachelor.”

And soon after the wedding, the actor took to Twitter to post a photo of him and Genelia,

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WASHINGTON: Sometime between Thursday, December 29, when the world shuttered down to end 2011, and Tuesday, January 3, when it reopened after heralding in 2012, Lyvita Gomes drifted into a lonely and terrible death in a Chicago area hospital from self-imposed starvation and dehydration. Apparently, no one in 21st century America is particularly shocked by this. Regretful, yes; alarmed or repentant; no.

The 52-year old Mumbai native, a former Pan Am stewardess and Delta Airlines trainer, had been on a hunger strike in jail for nearly three weeks following her December 10 incarceration arising from charges of resisting arrest in a routine jury summons case.

A timetable of events released by Greater Chicago’s Lake County sheriff’s office on Thursday showed she had been taken into custody on December 12, placed on a suicide watch immediately due to her “making suicidal statements during the booking process,” released on December 13 and re-arrested on December 14, at which point she began her hunger strike.

On December 17, county officials moved her to a medical unit “to observe and to validate hunger strike” and determined the next day that she had not eaten for 72 hours. “Hunger strike protocol” was initiated the next day with verbal orders given by doctor to provide her “with additional juices and meal trays and to encourage hydration and nutrition,” even as she was produced twice before a judge over the next two days.

Gomes, who is said

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