Miss Divine Beauty


Miss Divine Beauty is a national beauty pageant in India organized by the Divine Group. The pageant primarily selects India's representatives for the international Miss Earth competition, one of the Big Four major international beauty pageants.
Since 2021, the pageant has also conferred the "Beauty with a Responsibility" award, which recognizes participants for their social or environmental initiatives. The 2025 recipient is Vanshika Parmar, an environmental advocate from New Delhi, recognized for her initiative titled "Project Go Green".
Komal Choudhary from Pune, is the current Miss Earth India. She was crowned on 19 September 2025 at the Indradhanush Auditorium in Panchkula, Haryana.

History

India has participated in the Miss Earth pageant since its inception in 2001. From 2001 to 2013, India's representatives at Miss Earth were selected by Femina Miss India, which is sponsored by Femina, a women's magazine published by the Times Group. Subsequently, the franchise for selecting representatives from India to participate at the Miss Earth pageant was acquired by Glamanand Supermodel India. The Glamanand Group lost the franchise privilege in 2018.
India's representatives to the Miss International beauty pageant was initially selected by the Eve's Weekly Miss India contest, since its inception in 1960, until the year 1988.
Since the year 1991, Femina Miss India sent Indian delegates to compete at Miss International, and was successful in producing two first runner-ups and one second runner-up titles. The last highest placement of Femina Miss India's representative at Miss International was achieved by Shonali Nagrani, who was crowned as the first runner-up in Miss International 2003. The Times Group dropped the franchise of Miss International in 2015. The last representative to Miss International by the Miss India Organization was Jhataleka Malhotra in 2014.
The Divine Group acquired the rights to send India's delegates to the Miss Earth in the year 2019. and Miss International in 2023. Deepak Agarwal, the founder and CEO of Divine Group, serves as one of the National Directors. The first edition of Miss Divine Beauty was held on 31 August 2019 at Kingdom of Dreams, New Delhi. The finale was witnessed by Miss Earth 2018 Nguyễn Phương Khánh, Miss Intercontinental 2018 Karen Gallman and Miss Earth Water 2018 Valeria Ayos. Tejaswini Manogna became the first delegate to win the title of Divine Miss India. From 2019 onwards, Miss Divine Beauty is responsible for the selection of future Miss Earth India.
In July 2023, the Divine Group obtained the license to send a delegate representing India to the Miss International pageant being held annually in Japan and is one among the Big Four major international beauty pageants in the world. The licence is valid for three years.

Editions

Below is the complete list of Miss Divine Beauty:
YearDateMiss Divine BeautyEntrantsPageant venue
2019August 30, 2019Tejaswini Manogna40Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon, Delhi
2020August 31, 2020Tanvi Kharote20Virtual Pageant
2021September 24, 2016Rashmi Madhuri18Welcomhotel, Dwarka, New Delhi
2022September 3, 2022Vanshika Parmar27Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium, New Delhi
2023August 26, 2023Priyan Sain16Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium, New Delhi
2024August 31, 2024Gauri Gothankar12Golden Tulip Suites, Gurgaon
2025September 19, 2025Komal Choudhary17Indradhanush Auditorium, Panchkula, Haryana

Representatives at international pageants

The following is the placement of Times Mister India titleholders in international pageants.