Miss India Worldwide 2015

Miss India Worldwide 2015
Date	September 05, 2015
Presenters	Karan Tacker
Venue	Lalit Hotel, Mumbai, India
Broadcaster	Emirates Vision
Entrants	32
Winner	Stephanie Lohale  Oman
Congeniality	Soesoe Mustafa  Netherlands
Photogenic	Priyanka Sebastian  Sri Lanka

Miss India Worldwide 2015 was the 24th edition of the Miss India Worldwide pageant, held on 5 September 2015. The event was held at Lalit Hotel in Mumbai, India.

Monica Gill of the United States crowned her successor Stephanie Lohale of Oman at the end of the event.[1]

Results

Final result	Contestant
Miss India Worldwide 2015	Oman – Stephanie Lohale
1st Runner-up	India – Apeksha Porwell
2nd Runner-up	South Africa – Shivani Govender
Top 5	Qatar – Jyotsna Arora  United Arab Emirates – Nivetha Pethuraj

Special awards

Award	Name	Country
Miss Congeniality	Soesoe Mustafa	Netherlands
Miss Talented	Jyotsna Arora	Qatar
Miss Photogenic	Priyanka Sebastian	Sri Lanka
Miss Social Media	Dipti Bhudrani	Sint Maarten
Miss Beautiful Smile	Nandini Kochar	Botswana
Miss Beautiful Skin	Lieve Blanckaert	Guyana
Miss Catwalk	Apeksha Porwal	India
Miss Beautiful Eyes	Kareen Seepersaud	French Guiana
Miss Chairman's Professional	Veena Gurbani	Jamaica
Miss Bollywood Diva	Grace Walia	Indonesia

Contestants

32 contestants competed for the title of Miss India Worldwide 2015.

Country/Territory	Candidate	Age	Hometown
Australia	Nibedita Pal[2]	22	Brisbane
Bahrain	Ritu Pamnani	24	Dubai
Botswana	Nandini Kochar	17	Gaborone
Canada	Samantha Rodrigues[3]	20	Toronto
Fiji	Monisha Gounder[4]	17	Auckland
France	Chanda Rughoo
French Guiana	Kareen Seepersaud[5]	18	Cayenne
Guadeloupe	Trycia Ramaye[6]		Grande-Terre
Guyana	Lieve Blanckaert[7]	17	Georgetown
India	Apeksha Porwal[8]	18	Mulund
Indonesia	Grace Walia[9]	17	Jakarta
Italy	Natasha Jabul[10]	20	Bari
Jamaica	Veena Gurbani	26	Michigan
Kenya	Aliza Rajan[11]	24	Nairobi
Kuwait	Sharola Prasad	22	Dubai
Malaysia	Mogansundari Mahalingam
Martinique	Nirmala Marimoutou[12]	17	Fort-de-France
Mauritius	Lovna Peeharry[13]	23	Rose-Belle
Netherlands	Soesoe Mustafa[14]	26	Delft
New Zealand	Advaita Shetty[4]	20	Auckland
Oman	Stephanie Lohale[15]	19	Muscat
Qatar	Jyotsna Arora[16]	23	Dubai
Russia	Ashita Munjely		Moscow
Singapore	Durga Naidu		Singapore
Sint Maarten	Dipti Budhrani[17]	17	Cay Hill
South Africa	Shivani Govender[18]	22	Johannesburg
Sri Lanka	Priyanka Sebastian
Sweden	Sanaya Singh[19]	24	Gävle
Switzerland	Kanika Jain		Zürich
Trinidad and Tobago	Melissa Hanoman
United Arab Emirates	Nivetha Pethuraj[20]	23	Dubai
United Kingdom	Nandini Patel[21]		London
USA	Pranathy Gangaraju[22]	19	Duluth

Judges

The Miss India Worldwide 2015 final judges were:

• Richa Sharma
• Hrishitaa Bhatt
• Niharika Raizada
• Nikkitasha Marwah
• Sandeep Soparkar
• Raj Suri
• Alesia Raut

Contestant notes

• Natasha Jabul, has Mauritian origins on her parents' side.[10]
• Samantha Rodrigues, is born in Guyana.[3]

Crossovers

Contestants who previously competed at other national and international beauty pageants:

•  Bahrain – Ritu Pamnani placed top 5 at Miss India United Arab Emirates 2015.
•  India – Apeksha Porwal represented India at Miss Teen International 2009 in Chicago.[23] She was Femina Miss India Delhi 2015 but she unplaced at Femina Miss India 2015.[8] She has finished 2st runner-up at Miss Diva 2017.[24]
•  Jamaica – Veena Gurbani was Miss South Asia USA 2014 and Miss India Global 2017.[25]
•  New Zealand – Advaita Shetty had competed at Miss Teen International New Zealand 2014 and placed 3rd runner-up. She has finished 1st runner-up at Miss India Worldwide New Zealand 2014.
•  Russia- Dr. Ashita Munjely was Miss Himachal Face of The Year 2015. She was also crowned as Miss Himachal Runner up and Miss Himachal- Miss Style Diva 2015. She had also won Miss Tiara. She also won Miss SGMU 2018.

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