International Yoga Day in pictures: PM Modi says yoga is passport to heath assurance

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday performed Yoga with over 50,000 enthusiasts at the Forest Research Institute campus here, saying the ancient Indian discipline has emerged as the most powerful unifying force in a strife-torn world

He said, in fact, yoga has become the biggest mass movement across the globe in the quest for good health and wellbeing, which is crucial to the creation of a peaceful world.

"India's legacy of which yoga is a significant part is unique and rich. We must take pride in it," the prime minister said, adding that it has the power to promote universal brotherhood as it unites and assimilates instead of dividing.

Indian Naval Ships Shakti and Kamorta of the Indian Navy's Eastern fleet, presently on a deployment in western Pacific ocean and south east Asia, practice Yoga.

While greeting yoga enthusiasts across the world, the prime minister had said that this exercise is one of the most precious gifts given by the ancient Indian sages to humankind.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Governor Ram Naik

The proposal for the Yoga Day at the UN was accepted in record time with a majority of nations supporting it.
Today people all over the world have come to look upon yoga as something which belongs to them.

Dehradun to Dublin, Shanghai to Chicago, Jakarta to Johannesburg, Himalayan highlands or sunburnt deserts, Yoga is enriching millions of lives all over the world.
Yoga fosters amity in societies which can form the basis of national unity.