Hyderabad, May 8 -- For the first time outside the United Kingdom, India is hosting the Miss World pageant for two consecutive years-2024 in Mumbai and the upcoming 2025 edition scheduled to be held in Hyderabad.
The grand finale is set to take place at HITEX Exhibition Centre, here, on May 31.
India first hosted the Miss World pageant in 1996 in Bengaluru.
With the current back-to-back editions, India becomes the only country after the UK to host this prestigious event in successive years since its inception in 1951.
India has six Miss World winners: Reita Faria (1966, Maharashtra); Aishwarya Rai (1994, Karnataka); Diana Hayden (1997, Telangana),
Yukta Mookhey (1999, Maharashtra), Priyanka Chopra (2000, Jharkhand) and Manushi Chhi...