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The singer was part of the star-studded pre-wedding festivities of Isha Ambani, daughter of India's richest tycoon Mukesh Ambani.
Beyonce flew into India and dazzled guests at the pre-wedding festivities of Isha Ambani, daughter of India's richest person Mukesh Ambani, on Sunday in the historic city of Udaipur.
The Lemonade singer performed some of her biggest hits including "Crazy In Love," "Naughty Girl" and "Perfect" for guests at the glitzy event held at the luxury Oberoi Udaivilas hotel in Udaipur in Rajasthan. Guests included Hillary Clinton, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan and a host of other Bollywood stars.
Isha Ambani is marrying to Anand Piramal who also hails from a leading business family which runs the diversified Piramal group. Her father Mukesh Ambani is reported to be worth $42 billion and is the head of the massive Reliance Industries conglomerate.
Beyonce posted a photo of the outfit she wore for her performance which was designed by leading Indian designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.

A Mexican model and volunteer was crowned Miss World at a glitzy event on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan on Saturday.
Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon, 26, has a degree in international business, volunteers for "Migrantes en el Camino" and is on the board of directors of a rehab centre for girls, according to the Miss World website.
She was crowned as the 68th Miss World by last year's winner, Manushi Chhillar of India, in the coastal city of Sanya.
The colourful ceremony included US group Sister Sledge performing their 1979 disco anthem "We Are Family."
First runner up was Thailand's Nicolene Pichapa Limsnukan, a 20-year-old studying business administration.

Miss Belarus Maria Vasilevich, Miss Jamaica Kadijah Robinson and Miss Uganda Quiin Abenakyo were also among the final five.
It is the eighth time the Miss World final has been held in Sanya, which first hosted the pageant in 2003.
At the finals three years ago controversy erupted as officials in Hong Kong stopped Miss Canada, Anastasia Lin, from boarding a plane bound for Sanya, telling her she would not receive a visa.
The 25-year old actress claimed the decision was due to her stance on China's human rights record, including its persecution of Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual group of which she is a practitioner.

The Steelers had a perfect opportunity to position themselves for the AFC playoffs, as the New England Patriots, Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens all lost Sunday afternoon.

Vasiliy Lomachenko started his lightweight title unification bout with Jose Pedraza looking every bit like a fighter making his return from a seven-month layoff and shoulder surgery. He ended it proving once again why he's the pound-for-pound king. While he somehow wasn't able to get Pedraza (25-2, 12 KOs) out of there despite a brutal 11th round, Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) earned a unanimous decision by a wide margin to unify the WBA and WBO lightweight titles.
The fight started slowly, with the two fighters opting to circle and toss out halfhearted jabs in an effort to figure out their opponents' gameplan. The next few rounds followed a similar pattern, though not quite to the extent of the opening minutes. While it led to a close fight, and a difficult one to score at times. Lomachenko was always landing the more telling shots -- usually a straight left hand.
As the fight progressed, though, Lomachenko continued to increase his work rate and continued to take control. That culminated in an absolutely brilliant 11th round. Straight lefts, combinations, brutal uppercuts ... Lomachenko had it all working as he turned Pedraza into a punching bag for most of the round.

The 12th and final round wasn't nearly as exciting, as Pedraza once again did enough to get to the final bell, but it was only a moral victory. There was little doubt who had won the fight, especially after the 11th round, and judges' scorecards proved that.
So what's next for Lomachenko? After unifying the WBA and WBO lightweight belts, he had only one name on his mind during his post-fight interview: Mikey Garcia. The undefeated Garcia currently holds the WBC lightweight belt, but his focus is elsewhere. In just a few months, Garcia will be stepping up to welterweight for a huge showdown with Errol Spence Jr.
"Of course, of course I want two more belts, and maybe next year we could make a fight with Mikey Garcia," Lomachenko said.
A Lomachenko-Garcia matchup would be just as, if not more intriguing than Garcia's fight with Spence, but it remains to be seen if Garcia will move back down to lightweight following that fight.

Lomachenko vs. Pedraza card, results

Vasiliy Lomachenko (c) def. Jose Pedraza (c) via unanimous decision (119-107, 117-109, 117-109)
Emanuel Navarrete (c) def. Isaac Dogboe via unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 115-113)

	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	Total
Lomachenko	10	9	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	117
Pedraza	9	10	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	10	7	9	109

Valentina Shevchenko proved her dominance against Joanna Jedrzejczyk with a trio of Muay Thai victories, the native of Russia was able to do the same in mixed martial arts.
Shevchenko (16-3), a former bantamweight title challenger who moved down in weight, proved too strong and powerful for the former strawweight queen in a dominant unanimous decision to win the vacant women's flyweight title at UFC 231 in Toronto.
All three judges scored the fight 49-46 for Shevchenko, who outlanded Jedrzejczyk (15-3) by a margin of 50-30 in terms of significant head strikes. CBS Sports also scored the fight for Shevchenko, 50-45.

Three months after her original title shot fell apart when then-champion Nicco Montano was hospitalized due to a difficult weight cut (and eventually stripped), the 30-year-old Shevchenko was finally able to prove she's the class of the 125-pound division.
"I was waiting for so long this moment," said Shevchenko, who lost a disputed split decision to bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes in their 2017 rematch. "It's the magic words that I wanted to hear so long ago."
Shevchenko was never in trouble and set the tone early with hard and quick counter punches which never allowed Jedrzejczyk, who appeared unable to carry her power up from 115 pounds, to get into a rhythm in which she could close distance without paying for it.
A takedown in the first round let it be known how much stronger Shevchenko was as she secured side control and landed a series of short strikes. She went on to land five takedowns in all and was able to answer any success Jedrzejczyk, 31, had on her feet with harder counter fire.
"I am very happy that I get this belt in the fight with Joanna because she was very professional. I was not worried about whether this fight would happen or would not happen because I knew that she was responsible," Shevchenko said. "It means more to me to get this belt from this type of fight than from another opponent."
Jedrzejczyk, 31, lost a pair of fights to current strawweight champion Rose Namajunas over the last 13 months, which ended her title reign at five defenses. Although the native of Poland never slowed down and proved to have more gas in her tank than Shevchenko late, her moments of success on her feet proved few and far between.
Shevchenko had previously defeated Jedrzejczyk three times, all by decision, in Muay Thai bouts between 2006 and 2008.

Rumors of Max Holloway's demise were greatly exaggerated after all.
Putting aside a disastrous 2018 in which his health was called into question, the UFC's 145-pound champion outlasted a determined Brian Ortega in a UFC 231 main event that will go down as one of the best action fights of the calendar year.
Cageside doctors chose not to let Ortega come out for the fifth round with his left eye badly swollen and his nose bleeding as Holloway improved his win streak to 13 in a violent war inside Toronto's Scotiabank Arena.
Holloway (20-3) leaped the fence upon the stoppage and got in the face of the UFC's announce team to scream, "I told you," before declaring himself the best featherweight champion in company history. Considering Holloway owns two brutal stoppage wins over longtime king Jose Aldo, his claim may not be far off.
"Is there anyone else?" Holloway said. "Step forward, let's go!"
The 27-year-old Holloway was twice forced out of fights in 2018 due to medical reasons, including a scheduled bout against Ortega at UFC 226 in July when he looked lethargic and was visibly slurring his words during interviews. Despite doctors proving unable to come to terms on a diagnosis for what happened, Holloway powered through amid a vocal minority questioning whether him fighting so soon was the right move.
Holloway also became the betting underdog over the final 24 hours leading up to the fight.
"My fans got rich," he said. "You're welcome my friends."
Not only did Holloway quiet critics, including a worried Ortega, by making weight with ease on Friday, he very much looked the part of pound-for-pound elite inside the Octagon thanks to his trademark volume striking and pinpoint accuracy.
The key for Holloway proving able to keep the fight on the feet where he held an advantage in terms of striking was his repeated ability to either stuff Ortega's takedown attempts or quickly regain his feet each time his back hit the ground. Ortega (14-1, 1 NC), one of the most dangerous jiu-jitsu practitioners in the sport, was never able to threaten on the ground.
That doesn't mean Ortega wasn't effective. In fact, his ability to absorb clean, hard punches from Holloway and dangerously continue forward turned out to be the reason why the fight was such savage and fantastic theater.
"He's a tough opponent and a tough guy and we will probably see each other all the way to heavyweight because we like to eat," Holloway said. "It is what it is."
Although Holloway was able to connect on 54 percent of his significant strikes for the fight, Ortega routinely answered with sneaky counter shots. Despite having his nose bloodied as he was outstruck in Round 2, Ortega rallied back to land what appeared to be the harder punches to close the round.
Ortega then opened what turned out to be an insane Round 3 with clean right hands. Late in the round, he wobbled Holloway with a pair of rights and instantly took him down before taking his back. But before Ortega could apply a choke, Holloway slipped out of trouble and regained his feet.
With the momentum appearing as if it was aiming in Ortega's direction despite being down on the scorecards, Holloway boldly opened Round 4 by turning in the direction of UFC analyst Joe Rogan and motioning that he was about to finish the fight.
Although Holloway proved unable to do just that over the next five minutes, he battered a heroically brave Ortega with one clean combination after another. Eventually, Ortega's left eye began to swell dramatically as blood poured down his face. Despite the damage, Ortega rose from a brief knockdown and never stopped trying to win.
Both Ortega, who suffered the first defeat of his career, and his corner appeared ready to come out for Round 5 until the doctor jumped in to call a halt.
"I told you. What did I tell you in the corner?" Holloway told Rogan after the fight. "I said this is the round."
Despite UFC president Dana White talking of late that he would prefer Holloway's future to be at lightweight, the current featherweight king may not be finished just yet.

In the two years since its soccer party kicked off for real, Atlanta United has led a dreamlike existence. In a region few predicted would embrace the sport, it has at last produced, in vibrant fashion, the scenes American soccer fans have long envisioned: games being played in a gleaming new home; tens of thousands of fans standing and singing for 90 minutes; and flags and jerseys dotting not only the stands on match days, but also the city’s sidewalks, parks and lawns on the ones in between them.

Though fans were hoping Cardi Band Offset's breakup was fake news, the pair has indeed split  after 15 months of marriage, PEOPLE confirms.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra officially became man and wife Saturday — and stars from around the world were eager to congratulate the newlyweds!

“One of the most special things our relationship has given us is a merging of families who love and respect each other’s faiths and cultures,” they wrote. “And so planning our wedding with an amalgamation of both was so so amazing. An important part for the girl in an Indian wedding is the Mehendi.”
“Once again we made it our own and it was an afternoon that kicked off the celebrations in the way we both dreamed,” they said.