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Jammu: BJP leader Ram Madhav, who has kicked up a row by attacking Vice President Hamid Ansari over yoga, on Monday said he wanted the controversy to end. "See I want Yoga event to be remembered. Millions and millions of people…
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New Delhi: With over 9.5 lakh cadets doing yoga across the country on International Yoga Day, National Cadets Corps has created a record for the largest yoga performance simultaneously at multiple venues by a single uniformed youth…
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Bengaluru: Bollywood diva and fitness freak Shilpa Shetty on Sunday said yoga has nothing to do with religion, but is a pure science. "I don't think it would have been declared as an international event if it had anything to do with…
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Washington: A single, 20-minute session of yoga can stimulate brain function immediately, a study led by an Indian-origin researcher has shown. In the study, a session of Hatha yoga significantly improved participants' speed and accuracy…
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Washington: While the world celebrated the first International Yoga Day today, over 20 million Americans have already been practicising the ancient Indian meditative exercise, fuelling the whopping USD 27 billion yoga industry in the…
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Dehradun: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today performed yoga asanas with more than a thousand participants at a mega event organised here as part of International Yoga Day celebrations. Javadekar inaugurated the yoga session…
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Lucknow: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said yoga was India's biggest gift to the world and it cannot be tied to a particular religion, caste or sect. "Today not only in India, but in the entire world Yoga and Ayurveda are being…
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United Nations: The World Health Organisation is closely working with centres in India and across the world to support the unique knowledge of yoga with scientific evidence and incorporate it into universal healthcare approaches, a senior…
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Ban Ki-moonUnited Nations: Emphasising that yoga does not discriminate, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he discovered the "simple sense of satisfaction" it brings when he tried his first "asana" during his visit to India. In his…
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New Delhi: Indian embassies across 20 countries are set to hold an exhibition of photographs by art historian Benoy K Behl, all through this month, to commemorate the International Yoga Day on June 21. The exhibition, "Yoga for All, Yoga…
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