Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim had also hit a sparkling ton to help the hosts post a challenging 279 for seven after being asked to take first strike.

While Rahim's excellent knock went in vain, Kohli's effort resulted in victory of his team, which has copped a lot of criticism of late for their pathetic performance overseas.

Courtesy Kohli's 19th One-day hundred India recovered well after cheap dismissal of the openers Shikhar Dhawan (28) and Rohit Sharma (21) and overhauled the target with six balls to spare. It was India's first win in the 2014 calender.

Rahane played a key role in India's win as he and Kohli batted together for 33 overs before being separated. India were just 13 runs away from the win when Kohli was castled by pacer Rubel Hossain in the 46th over.

The opening ceremony at the Winter Games hit a bump when only four of the five rings materialized in a wintry opening scene. The five were supposed to join together and erupt in fireworks. But one snowflake never expanded, and the pyrotechnics never went off.

But everything worked fine for viewers of the Rossiya 1, the Russian host broadcaster.

As the fifth ring got stuck, Rossiya cut away to rehearsal footage. All five rings came together, and the fireworks exploded on cue.

On a landmark day for the country's football, India beat other bidders South Africa, Ireland and Uzbekistan in the fight to host the 24-nation biennial mega event.

By virtue of being the host country, India will take part in the tournament for the first time in its history.

"Yes, India has won the right to host the 2017 Under-17 World Cup Football. It's official now," All India Football Federation general secretary Kushal Das said.

A day after bidding an emotional farewell to the game which he considers his "oxygen", Tendulkar said that 75 per cent of his life had revolved around cricket and he had no regrets about hanging his boots after playing for 24 years. 

"It hasn't struck me that I won't play cricket again. It has been a dream journey, no regret that I am leaving cricket. This was the right time to stop playing cricket. It was an enjoyable journey," Tendulkar said at a packed press conference. 

"I had a question and when I looked for an answer, I felt it was the perfect time to leave the game." 

The 40-year-old maestro, who brought down the curtains on his career after playing his 200th Test, indicated that he would remain associated with the game after enjoying some time off. 

"Pakistan throwing this game away eh. Watch this space. Pakistan will just loose last few balls," Nixon tweeted after the sudden collapse of Pakistan that helped India deny a clean sweep to the visitors.

When one of his followers asked Nixon whether he was claiming that the match had been rigged, the 42-year-old tweeted, "r u watching the game???" He further retweeted several tweets, including these two: "this game is a joke especially when u see hafeez play a lap sweep with a leg slip in place" and "It must be India's 12th Man.....the Bookmaker!"

Nixon also said that it was no big deal for Pakistan to throw the final match of the series when they had already clinched the series. "2-0 up perfect to loose nothing matters," he tweeted in reply to a follower who questioned his assertion. Nixon used hashtags like #somethingnotright and #dodgey.

Nixon has played 19 ODIs and one Twenty20 international for England in 2007, including the World Cup in the Caribbean.

A near full house will greet the two teams as they finally get down to cricket after months of diplomacy managed to bring them together in a non-ICC event. When it comes to on-field stuff between the two sides, whose players have normally tended to get along quite well, it is usually how the Indian batting fares against Pakistan's bowling that settles the contest. 

It doesn't look any different this time around even if Dhoni said at the pre-match conference on Monday that 'strength on paper' will not matter and it will be a simple case of which team plays better on the night. In an India-Pakistan match though, with all its attendant pressures, there can be a case of whichever team managing to play less worse, coming away with the right result.

Pinki was arrested on June 14 on a rape and assault complaint by a live-in partner. It led to three medical tests that failed to establish the athlete's gender or prove conclusively if the accused was capable of rape. Pinki was later released on bail.

The athlete has now been charged under sections 376 (rape), 417 (impersonation), 420 (cheating), 325 (assault) and 506 (intimidation), 493 (cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of a lawful marriage). A medical report submitted by cops in a court after investigation classified Pinki as male.

Quoting the test report, additional public prosecutor Shantamoy Bose said Pinki was "capable of having intercourse as a normal male and had all the facets required for sexual activities."

Based on the medical test done by a board of doctors at the state-run SSKM hospital in Kolkata, the police filed a chargesheet against Pinki charging the athlete with rape and cheating as well as charges of holding out threats.

The live-in partner had alleged that Pinki was a male and had raped her, which led to Pinki's arrest on June 14 and an order for medical examination to confirm the gender was issued. The former middle-distance runner, who won the 4x400 m relay gold in 2006 Doha Asian Games, was freed from jail on July 11 pending disposal of all cases.

Addressing convocation ceremony of a private university in Aligarh, on Saturday, in which Saina alongwith five other Olympic medal winners were felicitated by the university with honorary doctorate degrees, Mulayam spoke at length on status of higher education in UP and challenges before SP government in the state. In between, he devoted few minutes on praising the London Olympic medalists, particularly Saina.

In a lighter vein, he asked the ace badminton player to contest the next Lok sabha elections from Aligarh.

Amid cheers and applause from the audience, Mulayam said that the SP would be happy to give her ticket from Aligarh Lok Sabha seat. Mulayam said that Saina has done the country proud and he wants her to prosper in life. The election ticket would be his blessing to her, he added. Saina thanked Mulayam for his appreciation but did not respond to the offer.

Justice SJ Kathawalla refused the extension despite the team owners' last-minute scramble to bring in a new buyer and attempts to ask for time till Monday. However, the Chargers team cannot be terminated by the Board of Control of Cricket in India just yet.

That's because the court-appointed arbitrator - retired Supreme Court judge CK Thakkar - held his first meeting later in the day and passed a status quo order. This means the stay on BCCI's termination notice to Chargers continues. On October 1, the HC had stayed the termination and asked the franchisee to furnish the bank guarantee.