Amid snow-capped mountains and on board warships, India's armed forces demonstrated their impressive yoga skills. Let's take a bow!
The BJP slammed the Bihar CM for not organising an official function to promote the exercise in Bihar.
Amidst opposition in some quarters to observing International Yoga Day, Vishwa Hindu Parishad International Executive President Dr Praveen Togadia on Sunday said that the discipline was never secular and was more of "Vedic and sanatan".
Shiv Sena said 'commodifying' yoga will not harm the ancient practice, instead it will increase tourism and generate employment.
Amidst objections by certain minority groups to doing Yoga, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said there is "no compulsion" in this regard and that the practise of Yoga should not be related to any caste, creed or religion.
Indian Olympic medallist boxer MC Mary Kom will be the chief guest for the Yoga event.
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A spirit of enthusiasm and celebration overflowed outside the UN headquarters in New York as people arrived in large numbers to attend a historic event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to commemorate the 9th International Day of Yoga.
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'Youngsters in India look up to the West as if it is the biggest accomplishment they need in life. It breaks my heart.'
The Delhi High Court expressed shock and termed as "indefensible" Yoga guru Ramdev's purported remark of "sharbat jihad" on Hamdard's Rooh Afza. The court was hearing a plea by Hamdard National Foundation India against Ramdev's Patanjali Foods Ltd. Ramdev's counsel was unavailable, and the court will take up the matter again later.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not perform yoga at the mega event on Rajpath to mark the 'International Yoga Day' on June 21
The PM also asserted that the traditional practice has now become part of every person's life.
The actor uploaded a video of her doing pranayama on Instagram on Yoga Day.
However, he said that while he recommended Yoga for good health, he failed to understand why it was being made a 'religio-political' issue.
India on Tuesday set a new world record with over 2,500 pregnant women performing Yoga together as part of the Second International Yoga Day at the Swaminarayan Temple hall on Kalawad Road in Rajkot, Gujarat.
The Supreme Court of India has reprimanded the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for delaying legal action against Isha Foundation, a yoga and meditation center founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, over alleged environmental violations. The court criticized the TNPCB for taking two years to challenge a Madras High Court ruling that quashed a showcause notice against the foundation. The court also emphasized the importance of environmental compliance for the yoga center, noting that it must meet all necessary parameters. The case highlights ongoing legal challenges and environmental concerns related to the Isha Foundation's activities.
Born on 8 August 1896 in Sylhet district (now in Bangladesh) of undivided India, Swami Sivananda lost his mother and father at the age of six. Due to abject poverty, his beggar parents could feed him mainly boiled rice water during his childhood days.
Joining thousands at San Francisco's Marina Green Park, the finance minister spoke of the advantages of practising yoga and thanked those who helped in making the event a success.
It was almost 10 years ago that the idea of a Yoga Day was mooted by some NGOs, but it had no takers till Prime Minister Narendra Modi realised its potential, probably at the instance of Sri Sri Ravishankar, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a keen practitioner of yoga and on Wednesday he took to the yoga mat to prove it.
A Muslim yoga expert will teach yoga to BJP president Amit Shah at a special yoga camp in Patna on June 21 to mark the International Yoga Day celebrations. M I Khan Reports.
The prime minister has been sharing videos explaining the importance of yoga.
The Centre has proposed the chanting of 'Om' and the recital of some Vedic mantras before the 45-minute yoga session, a move which many are criticising.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman performed yoga during a mass yoga session at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to celebrate the eighth edition of the International Day of Yoga, June 21, 2022.
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Acharya Jonas Masetti, a Vedanta scholar from Brazil, was awarded the Padma Shri for teaching the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit, Yoga, Meditation and Indian spiritualism abroad.
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In his monthly "Mann ki Baat" radio address, the prime minister also urged people to participate in an online yoga competition being organised by the ayush ministry.
Jaymal Singh Negi mentioned that his brother informed him about the trapped men engaging in yoga and exercises inside the tunnel.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cautioned against "commodifying" yoga, saying using it as some sort of business will do great damage to this world heritage.
Glimpses of yoga sessions on a suburban train on the occasion of International Women's Day in Mumbai, India, March 8, 2023.
'Every couple of days she'll be sleeping and Ranveer and I will look at her and then just look at each other and be like, we can't believe this has happened to us.'
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India is all set for a mega Yoga event on June 21. But before that watch these Yoga moves played out in the most 'out there' of locations.
Sadhguru said even though the idea of commemorating the International Yoga Day was mooted by PM Modi, it was "almost like the world was waiting for it".
Along with running, yoga is a regular part of Ankita Konwar's fitness regime.
