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International Yoga Day 2017: Rainy Start To Yoga Day, PM Narendra Modi Leads Asanas In Lucknow - Highlights

The United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day on December 11, 2014.

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World Yoga Day 2017: PM Narendra Modi performs yoga with participants in Lucknow.

It was a rainy start to the third edition of International Yoga Day. This year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Lucknow where he is performing yoga along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and 51,000 participants at Ramabhai Ambedkar Sabha Sthal. The NDA's choice for President, Ram Nath Kovind, performed yoga at Central Park in Delhi. Indian missions in the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States, among other countries, are holding programmes on yoga with participants from various sections of society. The United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day on December 11, 2014.

Here are the live updates of International Yoga Day 2017:

Jun 21, 2017 10:19 (IST)
Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman performed yoga in Palakkad, Kerala.


Jun 21, 2017 10:04 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 09:41 (IST)
President Pranab Mukherjee told a gathering of enthusiastic children, youths and elderly people at Rashtrapati Bhawan, "Regular practice of yoga will not only help you have a fit body and a sound mind, but it will also take care of all disorders -- mental and otherwise."
Jun 21, 2017 09:36 (IST)
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans performed yoga at a freezing temperature of -25 degrees in Ladakh.
Jun 21, 2017 09:16 (IST)
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Jun 21, 2017 08:55 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 08:44 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 08:41 (IST)
"Compliments to everyone on #YogaDay #IDY2017," tweeted Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Jun 21, 2017 08:23 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 08:21 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 08:03 (IST)
4,000 people at the iconic Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company in the UAE.

Jun 21, 2017 07:55 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 07:50 (IST)
Yoga on-board INS Jalashwa & INS Kirch in the Bay of Bengal.

Jun 21, 2017 07:47 (IST)
Ram Nath Kovind, NDA's choice for President, is at Delhi's Connaught Place

Jun 21, 2017 07:45 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 07:38 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 07:32 (IST)
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is performing yoga in Central Park, Connaught Place.

Jun 21, 2017 07:29 (IST)
Yoga session for BSF personnel, conducted by Isha Foundation.

Jun 21, 2017 07:25 (IST)
Jun 21, 2017 07:24 (IST)
Yogi Adityanath performing warming up exercises.




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