At Dawn, India launched International Yoga Day

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New Delhi, June 21: PM Narendra Modi at the launch of the International Yoga Day Celebrations: "Rajpath has become ’Yog-path.’ We are not only celebrating a day but we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace."

 

 

 

 

Delhi’s India Gate all decked up for Yoga Day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who practices Yoga daily, launches the celebrations to mark the International Yoga Day. PM Modi made Yoga Day a key initiative of his government. "Yoga has the power to bring the entire humankind together!" PM Modi tweeted last year after pitching the idea of celebrating an International Yoga Day, during his speech to the UN General Assembly.

 

 

With at least 40,000 people expected to take part in the Yoga event held at Rajpath, the government is all set to break the Guinness World Record on International Yoga Day. Apart from the celebrations in Delhi, the government has left no stone unturned to make the day a success and has planned events across the country.