21st June News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day
India | Jun 21, 2016, 07:45 PM ISTImportant news stories
Important news stories
United Nations: Amid the ongoing celebrations on the occasion of International Yoga Day, mystic and yoga master Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev today told the United Nations with a rhetorical flourish that the "ancient practice is not
Mumbai: Budget airline SpiceJet celebrated International Yoga Day by conducting practice sessions on all its two-hour flights across the network, a top official said on Tuesday. The Yoga practice was carried out in collaboration with
Maheish Girri, who is on a hunger strike outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, performed Yoga at the agitation venue to mark the second International Yoga Day here on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Advocating Yoga as a tool to fight diabetes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Yoga can control diabetes if not eliminate the disease completely. Addressing over 30, 000 people on
Chandigarh: Yoga is no religious activity and people must embrace it for better mental and physical health, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Tuesday to mark the International Day of Yoga. Addressing some 30,000
New Delhi/Chandigarh: Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are celebrating the second International Yoga Day celebrations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the events in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Here are the highlights of
New Delhi/Chandigarh: Hundreds of thousands of people across the country and abroad will bend and stretch and do some deep breathing as part of yoga exercises for the second International Yoga Day celebrations with Prime
Paris: As part of the series of events to mark the second “International Day of Yoga’, the Embassy of India in Paris organised an event at the iconic Eiffel Tower on Sunday. The event attracted
New Delhi: Union minister Jitendra Singh, who also holds the youth affairs and sports portfolio, on Sunday said his department and all the affiliated youth wings will be actively involved in organizing over one lakh
New Delhi: As many as 57 Union ministers will spread across the country on Tuesday for the 2nd International Yoga Day programmes, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing the ancient Indian physical exercise in Chandigarh.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took stock of preparations in the run up to the International Day of Yoga to be held on June 21. Modi today chaired a high-level meeting to review
New Delhi: Amid row over chanting of 'Om' before yoga session on International Yoga Day, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said it is not mandatory. He said it is just a sort of
The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) has clarified that chanting of 'Om' and other Vedic mantras before the yoga session on International Yoga Day (June 21) is not compulsory but voluntary.
New Delhi: The journalist who published a report claiming that the AYUSH ministry had denied jobs to Muslims as part of government policy has today been arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of fabricating an RTI reply from the government in the sa
In his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today touched a number of topics including IncredibleIndia and Yoga Day.Here are the major highlights of his address: * During my last 'Mann
New Delhi : RSS spokesman-turned-BJP leader Ram Madhav's audacious outburst against Vice President Hamid Ansari is a good example of what all can go wrong if politicians try to usurp the ancient science of yoga.Never
The first International Yoga Day was celebrated across the world on June 21.But in India, several political leaders left no stone unturned in politicising the day. For some, it was against any particular religion while
New Delhi: "How did I do?" asked US envoy Richard Verma smiling at the end of the International Yoga Day event on Rajpath, adding: "It was terrific, it was very relaxing."Verma was among over 200
United Nations: The International Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations here sought to symbolize the unity of humanity as people from around the world gathered Sunday in unique observance of an Indian proposal sponsored by 177
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