 Russia's Ksenya Sukhinova was Saturday crowned Miss World 2008 after beating scores of international beauties, including India's Parvathy Omanakuttan who finished first runners up, at a glittering African extravaganza held here.
"Miss World 2008 is Russia," announced Julia Morley, head of the Miss World committee that organises the event.
The 21-year-old Parvathy, who hails from Kottayam in Kerala, narrowly missed out on joining five Indian glamour queens Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta Mookhey (1999) and Priyanka Chopra (2000) who had won the title. |
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 Simran Kaur Mundi was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2008, in April 2008. Simran will represent India in the Miss Universe 2008 pageant.
Simran Kaur, who has grown up in Mumbai, wants to open a beauty school in India that will help aspiring models to get the required grooming and etiquette. She is a biotechnology student from Versova. Simran loves sketching, listening to music, playing basketball, and being around kids. Simran works for a cinema chain in
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Destructive catastrophe in Japan raises a practical question “Is India Earthquake prone?” Undoubtedly , the answer is “Yes”. In past, occurrence of several significant earthquakes has proved the subcontinent’s susceptibility. The earthquakes mostly occurred in highly populated and urbanized localities causing great damage |
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With the launch of more than a dozen news channels in India there is a war for getting news on these 24 hour news channels. Since there is nothing better to put on air the channels have come up with these unique news items in the garb of breaking news.
Here is a sample of screen caps I got in an email. Just shows what these channels have to come up with in the name of BREAKING NEWS. |
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 Finally the women are becoming accomplice to their male counterparts. For the first time in its history, the Indian police department has drawn up a list of India’s most wanted woman criminals. Traditionally police department focuses on male criminals, and hence the woman criminals get away easily.
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We in India are known for our fetish for natural products. From clothes to bags to drugs, we have marketed ourselves as the world's original environmentalists. Well not exactly. But we always claim to go back to nature for our subsistence. That's why a natural substitute for Viagra was just a matter of time. And this substitute is tasty too. Recommended by doctors – okay, they say doctors only recommend apples, but we all know the apple is only a representative for all fruit – the watermelon, says an Indian researcher in the US, has juices that are good enough to stir any man's. |
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