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Chennai sobers up; SRK on spree

Chennai and Kolkata continued their dominance in the fourth round of the players' auction in the Indian Premier League in Mumbai on Wednesday. The India Cements-owned side tightened its purse strings, picking just-retired Kiwi veteran Stephen Flemming for his modest base price of $350,000. Shah Rukh Khan boosted his side's cool quotient and bought Caribbean big-hitter Chris Gayle for $800,000.

Jayasuriya most valuable; no takers for McGrath

Sri Lankan master blaster Sanath Jayasuriya leapfrogged fellow-left-handed opening batsman Adam Gilchrist to become the most expensive foreign player after two rounds of bidding in the Indian Premier League. At the twilight of his international career, the all-rounder was snapped for just under a million dollars, a good $275,000 more than Gilchrist.

Warne humbled in bidding

The Aussies spin legend who commanded the highest base price of US $450,000, was bought for just that sum.

Analysis: What drove MNS to violence

The recent attacks on north Indians by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena are a shrewd ploy of party chief Raj Thackeray to embarrass the Shiv Sena and usurp its core Marathi constituency, political observers in Mumbai say.

First Look: The Bajaj Pulsar-200

Bajaj Auto will launch the new P-200 in January 2007.

Survivors' tale: 3 hours under the debris

'Is this what policemen do?'