Sunday, January 16, 2000,
Chandigarh, India
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Miss India
Universe
PUNE, Jan
15 (PTI) — Lara Dutta was crowned the Femina Miss
India Universe, while Priyanka Chopra and Diya Mirsa
bagged Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific crowns,
respectively, in the Femina Miss India Contest here
today. Of the 26 contestants, 15 were shortlisted and
five of them made it to the finals. Out of the 15, three
were finally selected. The panel of judges included Shah
Rukh Khan, Waheeda Rehman, Subhash Chandra, Juhi Chawla,
Pritish Nandy, Marcus Swaraski, Caraline Hareira, Anjali
Menon and cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin. Sushmita Sen,
Aishwarya Rai, Diana Hyden and Yukta Mukhey were among
those who attended the event.
Lankan killing
COLOMBO, Jan 15 (DPA) — Suspected Tamil rebels
assassinated a chairman of a local council in northern
Sri Lankan renewing their protest against government
efforts to restore civil administration in the
strife-torn region, political sources said today. Urban
Council Chairman Vadivail Wijeratnam, was gunned down
close to his office at Point Pedru.
Ocalan issue
ANKARA, Jan 15 (DPA) — Thousands of relatives of
soldiers killed in clashes with the Kurdish Workers’
Party (PKK) militants today took to the streets to
protest a government decision to postpone the legal
process to execute PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Rallies of
so-called “martyrs relatives” gathered in
Ankara, Antalya, Kayseri and Konya calling on the
government to resign and for Ocalan to be hanged
immediately, the Anadolu news agency reported.
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