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Mitchell Starc is on cloud nine. The Aussie fast bowler cum batsman recently landed the deal of a lifetime. He became the most expensive player in the IPL (Indian Premier League) auction history.

Premier League (IPL) being held in Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena. Cummins, also Australia’s cricket captain, was sold first to Sunrisers Hyderabad for a record-breaking ₹20.5 crore. But soon enough, he was pipped to the peak by mate Starc, who went to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹24.75 crore after a mighty bidding war with Gujarat Titans.

Indian Premier League 2024 action underway in Dubai on 19 December and two players from Australia picked by franchises for over ₹20 crore each, netizens are making fun a and sharing hilarious memes on social media. As per details, Australia's star bowler Mitchell Starc became the most expensive player to be sold with a price of ₹24.75 crore to Kolkata Knight Riders.

Premier League (IPL) as the most expensive player in history. Kolkata Knight Riders secured his services with a whopping bid of Rs 24.75 crore in Tuesday's players' auction. Starc surpassed the previous record held briefly by Australia captain Pat Cummins, who was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 20.50 crore.

₹143.4 crore. This includes 14 overseas players. Considering the list of expensive players auctioned this year, this time 7 overseas players were the favourites, and only 4 Indian players were bagged for over ₹5 crore mark.

Premier League (IPL) at the auction in Dubai on Tuesday. He was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for ₹24.75 crore, breaking the record of Pat Cummins who was picked up for ₹20.5 crore by Sunrisers Hyderabad barely an hour ago. Ten teams, 332 players and only 77 available slots.

IPL auctions 2024: Money is raining in Dubai. As some of the best cricketers go under the hammer at the IPL auction 2024, IPL teams can't stop themselves from raising the peddle. At the IPL auction 2024, some intense bidding war was in play with franchises bringing all their negotiating strategies to the table.

Dunki Advance Booking: Shah Rukh Khan’s next movie Dunki, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, has witnessed a spectacular start with its advance bookings. For Day 1, it has signalled a strong performance at the Indian Box Office. The movie will be released on December 21.

IPL Auction 2024 Live Updates: The much-anticipated IPL Auction 2024 promises to be a spectacle, with 333 players registered for the event. Initially, a staggering 1,166 names were submitted. However, the 10 franchises narrowed it down, reducing the count by 833.

The auction will have 116 capped players, 215 uncapped players, and 2 players from associate nations. Out of the available 77 slots, up to 30 will be reserved for overseas players. The previous IPL player auctions have seen some remarkable records being broken. In the TATA IPL 2023 auction, a total of 80 players were sold, and the franchises collectively spent Rs 167 crore in Kochi. All-rounders were in high demand, and English player Sam Curran became the most expensive player in IPL auction history, returning to the Punjab Kings with a bid of Rs 18.50 crore. Mumbai Indians bought Cameron Green for Rs 17.50 crore, and Chennai Super Kings acquired Ben Stokes for Rs 16.25 crore, making them part of the top 10 most expensive players in IPL history. In the 2022 auction, 204 players were sold, and Rs 551 crore was spent by the franchises in Bengaluru. Young Indian cricketers stole the show, with Ishan Kishan fetching the highest bid of Rs 15.25 crore, securing his return to the Mumbai Indians. Deepak Chahar rejoined the Chennai Super Kings for Rs 14 crore, and Shreyas Iyer was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 12.25 crore. Avesh Khan became the most expensive uncapped player in IPL history, with a bid of Rs 10 crore. In the list of top 10 most expensive players events two Indians — Yuvraj Singh and Ishan Kishan — make into the list while English all-rounder Ben Stokes features twice.

IPL auction 2024: The mini-auction of the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to be conducted on Tuesday in Dubai at the Coca-Cola Arena. In total 333 players will go under the hammer and the teams will spend around ₹250 crore to fill the 77 available slots in their team. The IPL auction 2024 is expected to witness some intense bidding war and the performances of players in the ICC World Cup 2023 will surely be accounted for.

Travelopedia 2023 on Monday. The company said Travelopedia 2023 draws insights from Oyo’s global booking data and unveils key trends that have shaped travel experiences for its over 93 million users across India, UK, US, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the rest of Asia and Europe, spanning January 1 to December 1, 2023. As per the report, Hyderabad emerged as the most booked city in India followed by Bengaluru, Delhi, and Kolkata.

Impresario Hospitality & Entertainment, which owns restaurant brands like SOCIAL, Smoke House Deli and Boss Burger, is planning to go public in the next two to three years, according to its managing director, encouraged by the growth in the casual dining restaurant segment. The Mumbai-based food company also plans to increase its restaurants count to 100 in the next two to three years, with a revenue target of '1,000 crore by FY26, Riyaaz Amlani, Impresario's MD, told ET. While India's quick service restaurant (QSR) segment has multiple listed firms, including Devyani International, Sapphire Foods and Burger King India, the casual dining restaurant (CDR) space has only a few.

MUMBAI : The Union finance ministry has rectified the agenda of a parliamentary committee meeting scheduled for early next year, putting an end to speculation of a potential merger of public sector banks—UCO Bank with Union Bank of India, and Bank of India with Bank of Maharashtra. In a letter addressed to, among others, the bank chiefs of the four PSU banks and Reserve Bank of India governor on Thursday, the finance ministry said that the members of the parliamentary committee would hold informal discussions with UCO Bank and Union Bank, besides Bank of India and Bank of Maharashtra, over the “regulatory mechanism in post-merger scenario".

The unstoppable Indian residential sector surpassed all previous highs in 2023 with housing sales creating a new peak quarter-on-quarter. Concurrently, the overall sales value of sold housing inventory also inched higher.

Surat International Airport is being denoted as an integral part of the Gujarat city's infrastructural boost. PM Narendra Modi has called it «a major infrastructural upgrade for Surat, boosting ‘Ease of Living’ and ensuring greater commerce for the city and surrounding areas.» It is to be noted that as of now, Surat connects to 14 domestic cities including Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Goa, Goa Mopa, Belgaum, Pune, Jaipur, Udaipur, Indore, Diu and Kishangarh.

Surat Airport will increase three times once its newly built terminal building is operational, said Sanjeev Kumar, Chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The AAI Chairman stated this ahead of the new terminal's inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi will be on a day-long visit to Surat on Sunday.

Off the Chennai-Kolkata highway, huge cutouts of Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu and his son and party national general secretary Nara Lokesh dot the landscape. Just three months before the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, Lokesh is wrapping up his 11-month Yuva Galam padyatra. People line up on the side of the road, some holding representations and hoping to be heard by Lokesh.

Half-Marathon on January 21, 2024, announced Kolkata Commissioner of Police Vineet Kumar Goyal on Friday. Ace athlete Colin Jackson was present at an event organised by Kolkata Police today. “It is a pleasant occasion that we are announcing this year’s Half-Marathon. We got inspiration from the Tata Marathon.

Lalit Mohan Jha, the alleged mastermind behind the December 13 Parliament security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, was arrested on Thursday. According to Delhi Police, Jha, accompanied by an accomplice turned himself in, after a manhunt was launched to nab the alleged mastermind behind the entire conspiracy in the Parliament Security breach case. A Delhi court on Thursday had granted seven days custodial remand of all four accused persons arrested earlier — Manoranjan D, Sagar Sharma, Amol Dhanraj Shinde and Neelam Devi — in connection with the Parliament security breach matter. In the Thursday's security breach in Parliament, Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released yellow smoke from canisters and shouted slogans before being overpowered by MPs.

Lalit Jha, who were surprised to see his images on news channels, recall him as a reserved individual who seldom engaged with the community at Burrabazar in Kolkata. Four individuals arrested in connection with the security breach in Parliament have been charged under the anti-terror law UAPA, in addition to sections of the Indian Penal Code.