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International Yoga Day: PM Modi leads the way as world does yoga

Main event in Ranchi and 40 other major events will take place across the country.

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International Yoga Day is being celebrated globally and across India. Here are all the updates. 

PM Modi lead the way doing Yoga in Ranchi where he gave the message of spreading yoga to the villages, to the poor, to the tribal. He said that popularity of yoga has grown leaps and bounds in last five years with youth taking lead. 

 

Here are some of the other top leaders who did Yoga on IYD 2019. 

 

 

(Rajnath Singh at Rajpath)

(President Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan)

 

(JP Nadda doing yoga in Delhi)

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Amit Shah doing yoga at Rohtak 

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Yoga Asanas have now started. People following the cue of the yoga master who is conducting the event. PM Modi among thousands of participants in the Yoga event. 

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PM Modi highlights how the government has promoted Yoga in the last five years as a measure of a preventive medication. He says yoga has become much more popular with youth enthusiastically taking to Yoga with 'innovative and creative ideas'. This year the theme is Yoga for Heart Care Awareness. 

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Live streaming of the main event from Ranchi 

 

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Baba Ramdev and Devendra Fadnavis did yoga in Mumbai in early morning

The first International Day of Yoga was observed all over the world on June 21, 2015, when over 30,000 people including Prime Minister Modi performed yoga at the Rajpath in New Delhi.The idea of International Day of Yoga was first proposed by Prime Minister Modi during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 27 September 2014.

With agency inputs

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