Katrina Kaif, Disha Patani, Jacqueline Fernandez have kicked off 2018 with these hot photos

Disha Patani, Katrina Kaif, Jacqueline Fernandez and Radhika Apte made their way to the beaches to ring in the New Year. While Disha Patani went down to Sri Lanka with Tiger Shroff (but not before running into Ranveer Singh who was also headed there) and posted these hot photos from her beach vacation, Sri Lanka’s hottest export, Jacqueline Fernandez headed out to Bali. Also in Bali was Alia Bhatt while Radhika Apte chose to hit the pool at an undisclosed location. The boys showed off their beach bods too: Varun Dhawan was flaunting the abs that you (probably) plan to get this year as did Tiger Shroff.

Also bringing in 2018 in style were Anushka Sharma, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Shahid Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora. And Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Sidharth Malhotra, they spent the 31st with their best friends.

Check out how Bollywood celebrities brought in the New Year:

Disha Patani

 

Tiger Shroff

Katrina Kaif

Jacqueline Fernandez

IPL 2018 Retained Players List

Mumbai: The year 2017 has come to an end and the Indian cricket team will be gearing up for what could be one of their biggest challenges in the recent times as Virat Kohli and co take on Faf du Plessis-led South Africa in a gruelling two-month tour.

1) Mumbai Indians (MI):

Pre-auction retention:The defending champions are likely to retain the top three key players in skipper Rohit Sharma, the charismatic Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah, one of the best Indian bowlers in the limited-overs cricket in recent times.Right to Match:MI owners may have to take a tough call and have to pick only one from Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga as they must not let go, Krunal Pandya, a handy all-rounder who bowls spin and who played a fine knock in last year’s final as MI clinched their third IPL title – and use one RTM for him.

2) Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH):

Pre-auction retention:While SRH will not have to ponder too much while retaining skipper David Warner and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who can bowl at any point of time of the match with tremendous efficiency. The team may have to take a risk of letting either Shikhar Dhawan or Rashid Khan, perhaps one of the best spinners, who has been a lynchpin of Afghanistan’s bowling attack and a hot pick in various Twenty20 leagues, be in the list of players to be auctioned.While they will have the option to use RTM in the auction, it may turn out to be a tough ask as the teams will be ready to break a bank for both Dhawan and Rashid.Right to Match:SRH will like to use RTM to retain whoever between Rashid and Shikhar and for the second RTM, they might want to look at someone like Moises Henriques or Mustafizur Rahman.

3) Chennai Super Kings (CSK):

Pre-auction retention:The Ranchi-born, Chennai-boy MS Dhoni will adorn yellow jersey again as CSK, who was suspended for two years following the spot-fixing saga, make an IPL comeback. Apart from Dhoni, CSK will like to retain Suresh Raina. However, CSK will have to do a toss-up of sorts and choose either Ravindra Jadeja or Dwayne Bravo if they decide to retain three players before the auction.Right to Match:Whoever between Jadeja or Bravo is not retained before the auction, CSK might use RTM to have that player back in the fold. However, it will be interesting to witness for whom they will use their second RTM if they decide to use it; our pick could be anyone from the likes of Andrew Tye, R Ashwin, Faf du Plessis, Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum, with the scale tilting in favor of the underdog Smith.

4) Delhi Daredevils (DD):

Pre-auction retention:DD has been extravagant and have managed to pick some of the bright cricketing stars in the auctions that have taken place till now. However, the team has always struggled to fire in the tournament with captaincy changing hands and the unit failing to click as a team. And hence, while retaining a few players from the list of Quinton de Kock, Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Pat Cummins and Rishabh Pant can be expected, DD might also want to start from the scratch and build a whole new team as they target maiden IPL triumph.Right to Match:If at all, DD choose not to retain even a single player ahead of the auction, then they will have three RTMs and may want to go for any three from the names mentioned in the possible pre-auction retentions.

5) Kings XI Punjab (KXIP):

Pre-auction retention:Like DD, KXIP has a few good players – David Miller, Glenn Maxwell, Sandeep Sharma, Axar Patel and Hashim Amla – but the Bollywood actress Preity Zinta-co-owned side has struggled, barring a couple of seasons, to find their A-game consistently.Right to Match:If KXIP decides to hang back and not retain anyone before the auction for a high price, they will like to see how much the above mentioned five cricketers do in the auction and use their RTMs for a couple of them. If KXIP have plans to form a completely new team with a new leader, they might want to have a large purse and not spend heavily before the auction and on RTMs.

6) Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB):

Pre-auction retention:It might cost RCB Rs. 33 crores, but RCB will be keen not to lose strong core and solid fan-following as they will like to retain Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Yuzvendra Chahal, who has not put a foot wrong, representing the Indian team in the limited-overs cricket, over the last one year.Right to Match:Should RCB use RTM and retain one of the most explosive T20 mercenaries, Chris Gayle? Or should they cover more bases by using their RTMs and hold on to KL Rahul and Kedar Jadhav to add more strength to their batting, have a backup wicketkeeper and a slinging part-time off-spinner in Jadhav, who has given enough headaches for batsmen in the last couple of years? Tough task, but RCB, for once, will need to make ‘head over heart’choices and retain Rahul and Jadhav over Gayle.

7) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR):

Pre-auction retention:KKR management have the problems of plenty as they sit down and make some tough calls. KKR has taken some big calls in the past – notably letting Sourav Ganguly go at the risk of losing Kolkata support – but if one team which has managed to bounce back despite that call is KKR.However, picking only five from the likes of Gautam Gambhir, under whom KKR won the IPL twice, Andre Russell, Manish Pandey, Robin Uthappa, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Umesh Yadav, Trent Boult, Chris Lynn and Chris Woakes is a monumental task. But if KKR is keen to retain three players before the auction, they may go ahead with three from the likes of Lynn, Russell, Narine, and Uthappa.Right to Match:If the Shah Rukh Khan-co-owned KKR opt to retain Narine, Uthappa, and Russell, it will come down to what management has in mind for Gambhir, who is 36. Unless they have plans to rope in Gambhir in a double-role of captain and mentor, they might not retain Gambhir and will like to use 2 RTMs for Pandey or Kuldeep or Coulter-Nile or Boult.

8) Rajasthan Royals (RR):

Pre-auction retention:The Moneyball team of the IPL will be back in the fold following the two-year suspension and they will like to get going straightaway. The RR management has the option to retain the likes of Steve Smith, Ajinkya Rahane, James Faulkner, Rajat Bhatia and Dhawal Kulkarni, it is likely that they will only go ahead with Steve Smith and ask him to lead the side, and Rahane, who has been one of the finest openers in IPL.Right to Match:RR, meanwhile, may decide not to retain anyone and keep the Rs. 80 crore money-purse intact for the auction and then use RTMs for Smith and Rahane in the auction. However, that may be a bit too risky if the other IPL teams – mainly DD, KXIP and KKR (if they let Gambhir go) – opt to go bonkers and have Smith in the leadership role. Instead, they might want to use RTMs for someone like Faulkner and Bhatia – less on star power but extremely effective.

Latest Bitcoin, Ripple Price: Bitcoin Hovers Around $13,500, Ripple Near $2

Latest Bitcoin, Ripple Price: Bitcoins, undoubtedly, became profoundly popular after the price surged to $19,666 on December 17. However, there were some relatively obscure cryptocurrencies such as ripple and litecoin, which offered better returns (in the percentage terms) against the bitcoins. On January 2, the price of bitcoin is around $13,500 while the ripple can be bought for around $2 a coin and a litecoin for $231. The ripple faced several highs and troughs in the recent past. Exactly two months ago, which means on November 2, the ripple price had hit the intraday highest of $0.20. Now, fast forward to January 2, ripple's highest price is nearly $2, a jump of 900%. During this period, the price of bitcoin surged from $7,030 to $13,500, a jump of 92%.

Five things to know about the rise of ripple Vs bitcoin

1. In past two months, bitcoin price surged by 86%, while the ripple price zoomed by 900%. The ripple rally kicked off on December 12, when its price rose around 42% to trade at $0.419. Similarly two days later, the ripple price jumped (on December 14) to $0.847, surging a massive 83% against its price a day before.

2. The ripple price rose and fell marginally in the following days (after its jump on December 12) before it exhibited some wild swings on December 21 when it jumped 55% when it zoomed hit a barrier of $1 to trade at $1.11.

3. A day later, i.e. on December 22, 2017, the ripple price retreated from gains and plunged to $0.695, a fall of over 10% against the previous day's closing.

4. The ripple price's fall, however, didn't continue for many days and it spurted by 10% and further by 12% on December 26 and December 27, respectively. The highest price on these two days touched $1.09 and $1.28.

5. The rally continued further as the ripple price hit a high of $2.399 on December 30. On January 2, the price opened at $2 and now trades at $1.96.

Black Mirror Wishes You a Happy New Year (but Will It Be Horrific Instead?)

Black Mirror Wishes You a Happy New Year:

“It’s hard to imagine a bright future, but we must.”

New Year’s is a time for looking forward, and Netflix does so with trepidation—including the line above—in a new campaign for Black Mirror, whose fourth season just rolled out on the streaming service yesterday.

Through its first three seasons, the sci-fi anthology series has taken a notoriously grim view of technological achievement—seeing any new tools invented by humans primarily through the lens of how quickly they are weaponized. The ad below, which also broke yesterday, looks at 2017 much the same way, juxtaposing real-world events from the past year with clips from past seasons of the show—to suggest that even the things we celebrated as advancements could soon have disturbing consequences.

Reliance Jio launches a web version of JioTV & Jio Cinema 2018

Reliance Jio launches a web version of  JioTV & Jio Cinema | नमस्कार दोस्तों आपका स्वागत है आज यह फ्रेश आर्टिकल में ,आज हम Reliance Jio खास सर्विस JioTV & Jio Cinema के बारेमे ,तो यह पे जिओ ने JioTV & Jio Cinema के वेब वर्शन लोंच करदिये है.