Bank auctions wrong house to recover loan

PATNA: Anita Singh, 47, and her husband Dwijendra Kumar have been chasing authorities since February 16. That day they came to know that their only house at Adarsh Colony in Muzaffarpur had been auctioned by Punjab National Bank (PNB) to recover a loan of Rs 5 lakh which their neighbour, Ajay Sharma, had taken from PNB's Bela branch in Muzaffarpur in 1999. Read More................Bank auctions wrong house to recover loan

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Beggars turn bidders at property auction

KARAIKAL (Puducherry): Three beggars took officials and influential local bidders by surprise when they walked into the commune panchayat office at Thirunallar in Puducherry on Friday to take part in the auction of commercial complexes near the famous Thirunallar Saneeswara Bhagwan temple.Read More................Beggars turn bidders at property auction in Puducherry

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Dad Auctions His Daughter To Quench His Lust For Booze

This, surely, will qualify as an outrageous and unpardonable incident. It has come about in India. The contemptible incident is that a 40-year-old Dad named Krishnaiah vended his six-year-old daughter in an open auction that occurred in the Kadapa district on Wednesday. The daughter was auctioned in order to quench the sickening urge of her Dad to acquire liquor and guzzle it. Read More................Dad At Kadapa In India Auctions His Daughter To Quench His Lust For Booze

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Vintage one rupee coin auctioned for Rs 220,000

It may sound unbelievable, but a vintage one rupee coin fetched Rs.220,000 at a numismatic auction in India's IT hub on the country's 62nd Independence Day. Read more.........................................Vintage one rupee coin auctioned for Rs 220,000

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Nonsense Club auctions Players like Cattle

India’s great 'Satirist Jaspal Bhatti had earlier floated the 'Nonsense Club' & his band of faithful friends have been successfully selling 'nonsense' for the last 25 years. Welcome to the mad world of the 'Nonsense Club' founded and run by satirist-actor-director-engineer Jaspal Bhatti who hails from Chandigarh.

Now recently Jaspal Bhatti and his Nonsense Club organised a sports “mandi” (marketplace) here in Chandigarh city to sell players like cattle. The sports mandi at the city’s main commercial hub in Sector 17 mocked the recent Indian Premier League (IPL) auction of cricket players.

Bhatti put players from sports like hockey, football, athletics and even kabaddi up for sale.

“The minimum bid for a hockey player will start at Rs.50, football player for Rs.30 and kabaddi player for Rs.20,” Bhatti announced to mock the millions of rupees splurged by corporates on cricket players.

Members of the Nonsense club even sang parodies of old Hindi film songs to highlight the state of commercial cricket.

“Now players should only be playing for the money they get and not for the pride of the nation or for remaining healthy. We want to auction players like cows and buffaloes,” Bhatti said.

He demanded that all sports, which were not contributing to the brand value of industrial goods, should be immediately banned in the country.

He said that gambling and auctioning should be introduced as subjects from primary classes so that children can learn early about such things. He said that auction halls should be set up in all districts and cities to sell players everywhere.

“Any player from any sport who is unable to sell himself should be barred from all international events. Also players should perform depending on what they have been paid,” he said.

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World Cricketers on Sale!!!! Auctioned in India

On Sale! Sale! Sale!........What's on Sale??????

Best of the cricketers of the world on Sale.

In India there is a saying that "Paisa Bolta Hai", Yes, "Money Speaks" & today Money Spoke, not only Spoke but bought the best of cricketers of the world in the open market. Yes, the Best of the world cricketers were openly auctioned & interestingly no cricketer of the world objected to this open auction of them in the market. So here below are the results of this open auction that was held at the Hilton Hotel in Mumbai city in India.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni of India attracted the highest bid in today's auction for cricket's Indian Premier League, while Andrew Symonds was the most expensive overseas player.

Chennai bid $1.5 million for Dhoni and Hyderabad paid $1.35 million for all-rounder Symonds and $700,000 for his Australian teammate Adam Gilchrist. Players will receive the amount annually over a three-year contract.

Eight teams did bidding for the players .

Chennai also paid $600,000 for Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka, while Mumbai bid $850,000 for India's Harbhajan Singh and $975,000 for Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya. Bangalore paid $900,000 for South Africa's Jacques Kallis.

Mohali bid $475,000 for Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardena, Jaipur secured Shane Warne of Australia for $450,000 and Kolkata took Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar for $425,000.

The IPL designated some players as so-called ``icons'' to be team captains, getting 15 percent more than the highest-paid member of their team.

They include Yuvraj Singh for Mohali, Sourav Ganguly for Kolkata, Sachin Tendulkar for Bombay, Rahul Dravid for Bangalore and Virender Sehwag for Delhi. The Jaipur, Hyderabad and Chennai teams haven't been assigned icons yet.

The following table gives details of players, teams, ownership and bids after seven rounds:

Player- Country- Bid- Team

M.S. Dhoni- India- $1.5 Million- Chennai
Andrew Symonds-Australia- $1.35 Million-Hyderabad
Sanath Jayasuriya-Sri Lanka-$975,000- Mumbai
Brett Lee- Australia- $900,000- Mohali
Jacques Kallis- South Africa- $900,000- Bangalore
Harbhajan Singh- India- $850,000- Mumbai
Chris Gayle- West Indies- $800,000- Kolkata
Robin Uthappa- India- $800,000- Mumbai
Gautam Gambhir- India- $725,000- Delhi
Kumar Sangakkara- Sri Lanka- $700,000- Mohali
Adam Gilchrist- Australia- $700,000- Hyderabad
Brendan McCullum- New Zealand- $700,000- Kolkata
Manoj Tiwary- India- $675,000- Delhi
Jacob Oram- New Zealand- $675,000- Chennai
Shahid Afridi- Pakistan- $675,000- Hyderabad
Mohammad Kaif- India- $675,000- Jaipur
Mohammad Asif- Pakistan- $650,000- Delhi
Suresh Raina- India- $650,000- Chennai
Daniel Vettori- New Zealand- $625,000- Delhi
David Hussey- Victoria- $625,000- Kolkata
S. Sreesanth- India- $625,000- Mohali
Muttiah Muralitharan- Sri Lanka- $600,000- Chennai
Herschelle Gibbs- South Africa- $575,000- Hyderabad
Shaun Pollock- South Africa- $550,000- Mumbai
Dinesh Kartik- India- $525,000- Delhi
Anil Kumble- India- $500,000- Bangalore
Shoaib Malik- Pakistan- $500,000- Delhi
Cameron White- Australia- $500,000- Bangalore
Mahela Jayawardena- Sri Lanka- $475,000- Mohali
Graeme Smith- South Africa- $475,000- Jaipur
Shane Warne- Australia- $450,000- Jaipur
Mark Boucher- South Africa- $450,000- Bangalore
Zaheer Khan- India- $450,000- Bangalore
Shoaib Akhtar- Pakistan- $425,000- Kolkata
Ricky Ponting- Australia- $400,000- Kolkata
Matthew Hayden- Australia- $375,000- Chennai
V.V.S. Laxman- India- $375,000- Hyderabad
Stephen Fleming- New Zealand- $350,000- Chennai
Ajit Agarkar- India- $350,000- Kolkata
Parthiv Patel- India- $325,000- Chennai
A.B. de Villiers- South Africa- $300,000- Delhi
Younis Khan- Pakistan- $225,000- Jaipur
Joginder Sharma- India- $225,000- Chennai
Scott Styris- New Zealand- $171,000- Hyderabad
Wasim Jaffer- India- $150,000- Bangalore
Kamran Akmal- Pakistan- $150,000- Jaipur
Chamara Silva- Sri Lanka- $100,000- Hyderabad
Team- Owner - Icon
Bangalore- Vijay Mallya -Rahul Dravid
Kolkata- Shah Rukh Khan- Sourav Ganguly
Delhi- GMR Holdings- Virender Sehwag
Mumbai- Mukesh Ambani- Sachin Tendulkar
Mohali- Ness Wadia- Yuvraj Singh
Chennai- India Cements- N.A.
Hyderabad- Deccan Chronicle- N.A.
Jaipur- Emerging Media- N.A.

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