Buckling to protests, the Miss World pageant has decided to move its swimsuit portion of the contest out of India.
The swimsuit competition will instead be held in the Seychelles Islands, said spokesman Manohar Arcot of the Amitabh Bachchan Corp. Ltd.He said the swimsuit competition was being moved abroad because of protests in the southern city of Bangalore. Leading women activists want the entire 22-day pageant, scheduled for November, moved out of India.
It was not known if the shift would appease the protesters, who marched through Bangalore by the hundreds to demand the event be canceled.