International Yoga Day 2021: Striking images from India and around the world
International Yoga Day 2021: PM Narendra Modi asserted that in these difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, yoga has become a source of inner strength. Check out pictures of yoga being performed in India and around the world
International Yoga Day 2021 | In a televised address to the nation on June 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yoga remains a "ray of hope" as the world fights the coronavirus pandemic and asserted that in these difficult times it has become a source of inner strength. In this picture: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel perform yoga near Galwan, Ladakh (Image via news agency ANI)
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PM Modi also said that in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), India has taken another important step and now the world is going to get the power of M-Yoga application, which will have many videos of yoga training based on Common Yoga Protocol available in different languages. In this picture: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel perform yoga along the banks of the Pangong Tso in Ladakh (Image: Twitter/@DDNewslive)
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President Ram Nath Kovind performs yoga at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi (Image: Twitter/@rashtrapatibhvn)
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Participants, some wearing protective face masks, perform yoga during World Yoga Day in the old quarters of Delhi, India (Image: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)
People take part in a yoga session at the Kanheri Caves near Mumbai, India (Image: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP)
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People take part in a yoga session at a park in Amritsar, India (Image: Narinder Nanu/AFP)
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Women take part in a yoga session at outside the historical Shalimar Garden in Lahore, Pakistan on the eve of the International Yoga Day (Image: AP Photo/KM Chaudary)
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People participate in a yoga session to celebrate the summer solstice in New York, United States on the eve of the International Yoga Day (Image: Reuters/Andrew Kelly)