Israel : India’s Harnaaz Sandhi has been crowned Miss Universe 2021, twenty one years after Bollywood actress Lara Dutta won the tittle in 2000 and Susmitha Sen before that in 1994.
There were 80 contestants in the pageant held Sunday in Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat. The previously reigning Miss Universe, Andrea meza of Mexico, placed the crown on the 21-year-old Punjab-natived model, who beat her closest rival Nadia Fereria from Paragua and South Africa’s Lalela Mswane.
