Nepali girl bags Little Miss World title

A Nepali girl has won the Little Miss World pageant, which concluded in the Turkish city of Antalya on Saturday.

Twelve-years-old Supriya Maskey, who won the Little Miss World pageant, held in the ...

Twelve-years-old Supriya Maskey, who became the second Nepali to win the title in as many years, was one of the 27 participants in contention for the top prize. Bipaswi Paudyal, who won the previous edition of the pageant, was also from Nepal.

“ I am very happy that my daughter won the title,” Anir Maskey, Supriya’s father, told Samacharpatra daily over phone from Turkey.

Supriya, a Grade VII student at Little Angels School, had won the Little Miss World Nepal 2012 contest, organised by Nepalese Council in September. nepalnews.com