Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios wins Miss Universe 2023 title in San Salvador
San Salvador: Sheynnis Palacios, the contestant from Nicaragua, has been crowned Miss Universe 2023 at an event held at the Jose Adolfo Pineda Arena in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador on Sunday.
Palacios is the 72nd Miss Universe and the first Nicaraguan to win the title, and was crowned by R'Bonney Gabriel of the United States, who was Miss Universe 2022 at the event, reports India Today.
Thai contestant Anntonia Porsild was the first runner-up in the race for the title, while Moraya Wilson from Australia secured the third place in the beauty pageant.
Eighty-four countries and territories sent their contestants for the pageant in San Salvador, which had been hosted by American TV star Jeannie Mai and Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo as well as American TV presenter Maria Menounos.
Miss India Shweta Sharda reached the list of the top 20 contestants. Incidentally, this is the first time that Pakistan participated in the Miss Universe contest.
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RJD surprise element in J’khand polls, party candidates leading in 5 of 6 assembly seats
Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.
RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.
In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.
In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.
RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.
In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.
Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.
Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.
RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.
Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.
Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.
