Harnaaz Sandhu has been crowned Miss Universe 2021. The 21-year-old Punjabi woman who represented India in the 70th Miss Universe 2021 pageant in Eilat, Israel, won the crown, bringing it back to India for the first time since Lara Dutta did it in 2000. At the globally-watched occasion, Andrea Meza, the previous Miss Universe 2020 from Mexico, presented Sandhu with the crown.