
Brazil: Contestant Elisa Mendes, from Brazil's Maranhao state, performs during the Miss Brazil Plus Size Beauty Pageant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, January 29, 2012. A growing number of bikini and swimming suits manufacturers have woken up to Brazil's thickening waistline and are reaching out to the ever-expanding ranks of heavy women with new plus-size lines. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) ...

08:40 PM, Jan 30, 2012

Mumbai: Vasuki Sunkavalli, winner of I Am She Miss Universe India 2011, says her priority is physical fitness for the beauty pageant in Brazil and that she has no plans as of now of entering the Hindi film industry. "I don't have a Bollywood plan, but nevertheless, never say never. I'm a lawyer by profession and have done modelling and Bollywood has never been an option so far. But I...

08:19 PM, Jul 18, 2011

Mumbai: Good height and an attractive face are just not enough to get a place in Sushmita Sen's Wadhawan Lifestyle I Am She contest. The former beauty queen and actress says the most important criterion for selection is a person with "good character". "When I say character, I mean that a lot of women who come are very beautiful but some of them can do anything to achieve what they...

11:08 AM, Jul 02, 2011

Las Vegas: A 21-year-old auburn-haired California girl won the Miss USA crown on Sunday night and will represent the nation in this year's Miss Universe pageant in September in Brazil. Alyssa Campanella of Los Angeles topped a field of 51 beauty queens to take the title at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. She strutted across the stage in a blue bikini with white polka...

10:56 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Las Vegas: Jimena Navarrete of Guadalajara, Mexico, won the Miss Universe crown amidst much fan fare and adulation. The 22-year-old won the jury over by emphasizing the need to teach kids family values. Jimena, resplendent in a flowing red gown, was the first to answer an interview question on Monday night and the last of 83 contestants standing in the headline-grabbing pageant on the Las Vegas Strip. Asked by Olympic...

10:43 AM, Aug 24, 2010

Sixteen years after winning the title, Sushmita Sen speaks of her experience as on organiser of the beauty pageant. ...

10:06 PM, May 15, 2010

Check out the models who made it and who didn't in Bollywood ...

01:22 PM, Apr 09, 2010

Miss India Pooja Chopra was eliminated in the penultimate round. ...

11:09 PM, Dec 12, 2009

A five-member team was sent by the High Court to monitor the contest. ...

03:20 PM, Aug 06, 2009

Some winners from the country-level pageants who'll vie for the crown. ...

03:37 AM, Aug 04, 2009

Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA 2009. ...

01:52 PM, Apr 21, 2009

The pageant will be held at Pragati Maidan on January 31. ...

02:31 PM, Jan 22, 2009