Yogaday

From jokes about 'shavasana' to pictures showing animals in different asana-poses, here are 10 funny responses to #YogaDay, as shared on Twitter.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join thousands across the world this morning in bending for asanas as the second International Day of Yoga unfolds under elaborate arrangements amid worries of weather playing a spoilsport.

Over nine and a half lakh cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC), participated in the International Yoga Day on Sunday.

On a debate last night on NDTV in which I participated, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra refused to answer my question on abrasive statements by Yogi Adityanath and Ram Madhav about non-practitioners of Yoga. Patra and Kiran Bedi, his colleague from the BJP, sought like other leaders from their party to dismiss the serious allegations by Ram Madhav.

IIT-Roorkee has denied that it forced its students to join the government's grand-scale yoga programme on Sunday after a circular mailed by a student to NDTV appeared to suggest that.

UN's decision to commemorate the International Day of Yoga underlines the appreciation for India and its growing soft power, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said.

It was about three quarters of the way through my first yoga class that I realised I was going to die. We were in the shoulder stand position and, as a woman with somewhat more than a handful in the chest department, I feared I was on my way to becoming a victim of auto-erotic asphyxiation. After wiggling my way back to a safer savasana pose (lying...

How appropriate that a minister with a stain on her reputation as big as the bindi on her forehead should have been sent to New York to represent India at the International Yoga Day celebrations. What should have been a day of pride for all of us has instead been turned into a Hindutva tamasha by our Events Manager to beat all Events Managers.

While India may have cornered the Guinness Record for the largest simultaneous yoga demonstration, the gatherings in Paris to mark the first International Day of Yoga on Sunday set a French record of sorts of the most number of participants in public yoga demonstrations at the same time.

Vice President Hamid Ansari's office has told NDTV he was not invited to the Yoga Day event in Delhi after his absence was questioned by former RSS leader and BJP general secretary Ram Madhav.

India today said Yoga should not be seen as belonging to any particular religion and the ancient spiritual practice can serve as the "perfect antidote" to stem "negative tendencies" and move humanity on the path of peace in a world beset by violence and conflict.

Parisians turned up in thousands to do yoga in several locations all over the city.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who often obliges people with a selfie, today refused one to a volunteer while participating in the yoga day event at Rajpath.

While the record-setting International Day of Yoga on Sunday drew masses to the avenues and venues for the grand event across the country, some leaders were excited to hit the microblogging site Twitter early in the morning.

At least 8,000 inmates at the Tihar Central Jail in Delhi performed yoga on the occasion of International Yoga Day today.

From jokes about 'shavasana' to pictures showing animals in different asana-poses, here are 10 funny responses to #YogaDay, as shared on Twitter.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join thousands across the world this morning in bending for asanas as the second International Day of Yoga unfolds under elaborate arrangements amid worries of weather playing a spoilsport.

Over nine and a half lakh cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC), participated in the International Yoga Day on Sunday.

On a debate last night on NDTV in which I participated, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra refused to answer my question on abrasive statements by Yogi Adityanath and Ram Madhav about non-practitioners of Yoga. Patra and Kiran Bedi, his colleague from the BJP, sought like other leaders from their party to dismiss the serious allegations by Ram Madhav.

IIT-Roorkee has denied that it forced its students to join the government's grand-scale yoga programme on Sunday after a circular mailed by a student to NDTV appeared to suggest that.

UN's decision to commemorate the International Day of Yoga underlines the appreciation for India and its growing soft power, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said.

It was about three quarters of the way through my first yoga class that I realised I was going to die. We were in the shoulder stand position and, as a woman with somewhat more than a handful in the chest department, I feared I was on my way to becoming a victim of auto-erotic asphyxiation. After wiggling my way back to a safer savasana pose (lying...

How appropriate that a minister with a stain on her reputation as big as the bindi on her forehead should have been sent to New York to represent India at the International Yoga Day celebrations. What should have been a day of pride for all of us has instead been turned into a Hindutva tamasha by our Events Manager to beat all Events Managers.

While India may have cornered the Guinness Record for the largest simultaneous yoga demonstration, the gatherings in Paris to mark the first International Day of Yoga on Sunday set a French record of sorts of the most number of participants in public yoga demonstrations at the same time.

Vice President Hamid Ansari's office has told NDTV he was not invited to the Yoga Day event in Delhi after his absence was questioned by former RSS leader and BJP general secretary Ram Madhav.

India today said Yoga should not be seen as belonging to any particular religion and the ancient spiritual practice can serve as the "perfect antidote" to stem "negative tendencies" and move humanity on the path of peace in a world beset by violence and conflict.

Parisians turned up in thousands to do yoga in several locations all over the city.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who often obliges people with a selfie, today refused one to a volunteer while participating in the yoga day event at Rajpath.

While the record-setting International Day of Yoga on Sunday drew masses to the avenues and venues for the grand event across the country, some leaders were excited to hit the microblogging site Twitter early in the morning.

At least 8,000 inmates at the Tihar Central Jail in Delhi performed yoga on the occasion of International Yoga Day today.