After a slew of celebrities took up Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan challenge, it was the chance of United States Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
West Indies will finally have their wish granted when they would get to play on the hard and bouncy pitch in the fifth and the final One-day International at Sabina Park, Jamaica on Thursday.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka on Friday made a clean sweep in the bye-elections held on April 9, winning all the three seats by comfortable margins. The BJP wrested Bangarapet and Jagalur seats from the Congress and Chennapatna from the JD-S
IMAGES from Day 3 of the opening Test played between Australia and Pakistan in Perth on Saturday.
Rahul with 726 points maintained his position in the list led by Pakistan's Babar Azam with 885 points, followed by Colin Munro (825) of New Zealand, Glenn Maxwell (815) and Aaron Finch (782), both of Australia.
The two car companies have one of the most prominent hatchbacks in the premium segment namely, Maruti Swift and Honda Jazz.
Smriti Mandhana hit a fluent half-century as India continued to hold the upper-hand against Australia, on Day 2 of the one-off Test.
India would eye nothing less than a clean sweep when they take on an Australian side significantly weakened by injury blows, in the third and final T20 International, in Sydney, on Tuesday.
Mamata Banerjee thanked people for casting their votes in favour of the TMC.
Shane Watson won the Allan Border Medal as the outstanding Australian cricketer of the season for the second year in a row on Monday. Watson was also named player of the year for Tests and one-day internationals at a gala ceremony at a Melbourne casino while David Hussey prevented a clean sweep by winning the Twenty20 award.
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World number one Vijender Singh (75kg) fought through a bleeding nose to clinch his first international gold medal in two years as Indian pugilists made a clean sweep in the finals to win the overall team title at the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships in New Delhi.
Australian middle-order batsman Michael Hussey on Monday dethroned India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni from the top spot in the International Cricket Council's Batting Rankings. Hussey, whose 46-ball 40 was instrumental in Australia's win in the fifth and final ODI against Pakistan in Perth on Sunday, has 825 rating points, three more than Dhoni who also had a good show in the recent tri-series in Bangladesh.
Zaheer Khan took a career-best seven wickets to lead India to a convincing ten-wicket victory and a series sweep on day four of the second and final Test at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka on Wednesday.
Aditi Mutatkar made a successful debut, while Chetan Anand also shone as a dominant India sailed into the quarter-finals of the mixed badminton team event with a third successive clean sweep in the Commonwealth Games. World No 17 Chetan beat Lewis Martyn 21-12, 21-16 in a 21-minute men's singles match to set the ball rolling as India dumped Wales 5-0 in yet another scintillating performance at the Siri Fort Sports Complex.
Prime Minister Modi said BJP's performance in Parliamentary, assembly and local polls across India over the last few days illustrated that people want all-round progress and will not tolerate corruption and misgovernance.
Opener Tim Paine scored his maiden international century on Thursday to help Australia thrash England by 111 runs in the sixth one-day international at Trent Bridge.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's No 1 ODI batsman's tag is under threat from his deputy Yuvraj Singh, while the top one day team's status beckons India, provided they complete a clean sweep in the tri-series starting on Tuesday.
Premier League clubs return to Champions League action next week with fans and bookmakers both believing a winner will emerge from last season's finalists of Manchester United and Chelsea.
India Abroad's Bikash Mohapatra is at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera posting updates on the third ODI. Follow the latest on the match on Bikash's MyPage!.
Images from the Indian and South African teams' practice ahead of Saturday's third and final ODI in Ahmedabad.
IMAGES from the WPL Eliminator played in New Delhi on Friday.
Kenya's Denis Ndiso and Ethiopia's Bizunesh Mohammed won the men's and women's titles respectively in the $310,000 seventh Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
Insiders say some issues that demand immediate attention include improving asset quality and conservation of capital.
Having clinched the five-match series by taking an unassailable 3-0 lead, India will try out some of their reserve players when they take on Sri Lanka in an inconsequential fourth one-day international in Colombo on Thursday, seeking to notch up a record-breaking ninth consecutive win. Although the visitors would ideally like to make a clean sweep of the series, giving an opportunity to the bench players will be their priority in the remaining two matches.
Chelsea completed a clean sweep for English teams in the Champions League group stage after beating Cluj 2-1 on Tuesday to join holders Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool in the last 16 of the competition.
Shardul Thakur's sizzling 109 and Tanush Kotian's unbeaten 74 offset R Sai Kishore's six-wicket haul, putting Mumbai in command
With just two ratings points separating India, Australia and South Africa, the rankings could be set for some more chopping and changing over the next weeks as the battle for the Champions Trophy begins in South Africa on Tuesday.
Ricky Ponting piled on the misery for England with a masterful century to help Australia claim a comfortable four-wicket win and a 5-0 lead in the one-day series on Tuesday. Captain Ponting thumped 126 in 109 balls as the visitors eased to their target of 300 with 10 deliveries to spare at Trent Bridge.
After a relatively long break, India begin a gruelling cricket season in Colombo on Friday with a tri-series clash against New Zealand, fully aware that a clean sweep in the short series would make them the number one ODI team in the world.
Indian athletes dazzled with a rich haul of medals, including four gold, and setting four meet records on the concluding day of the athletics competition at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune on Thursday.
A year ago Michael Johnson predicted Usain Bolt would probably break his then 12-year-old 200 metres world record, but not yet. An hour later he was eating his words as his 19.32 was taken by the Jamaican's 19.30. Johnson, this time, said on Thursday he thought Bolt was too tired to take it down further, only to watch stupefied as he took 11 hundredths off to complete a clean sweep of world and Olympic sprint titles, all secured with world record runs.
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Openers KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock hit fifties as LSG trounced CSK by eight wickets.
A sweeping reform package that changes how the scandal-hit governing body of world athletics operates was overwhelmingly passed at a special Congress on Saturday.
The Congress, which had fought nine, lost all but managed to retain Kishanganj.
Gill revealed that he got a bit of 'schooling' from his dad after he got out cheaply in the second ODI two days back.
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