International Volunteer Day

International Volunteer Day: "Together We Can Through Volunteering" is the focus of IVD 2020 this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has thrown people across the world in an unprecedented crisis. IVD observed on December 5 every year is an opportunity for people to say a big thank you to all those who put service above self.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led over 50,000 volunteers in Dehradun today morning to mark the fourth International Yoga Day celebrations. In his address at Forest Research Institute, the Prime Minister said, "people across the country are welcoming the sun today. From Dehradun to Dublin, there's only Yoga." Indians should be proud of their traditio...

International Yoga Day celebrations will be led in the country by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will lead an estimated 50, 000 volunteers in Dehradun to mark the fourth anniversary of the occasion.

Sarvahitey is an NGO based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh which has been teaching children living in slums for the last 18 months at several locations in Delhi NCR. Recently, Sarvahitey conducted its monthly volunteers meeting where it was decided that Yoga classes should be included in the curriculum for the children.

Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party volunteers received BJP President Amit Shah at Nedumbassery International Airport in Kochi today. Mr Shah, who is on a three-day visit in Kerala, arrived in the southern state some days after the central government banned sale of cattle in animal markets for purposes other than agricultural and farm use.

Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today joined Coast Guard and volunteers in cleaning garbage from the beach in Puducherry as part of the '31nd International Coastal Clean Up Day'.

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.

Many passengers attempted to follow the volunteers as they were seen rotating their necks, shoulders and arms, while sitting on their seats.

More than 100 US cities will organise a 'Yogathon' on the first International Yoga Day to be celebrated on June 21, said Overseas Volunteer for a Better India (OVBI) - the the lead organisers - in a statement.

A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, today to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women.

About 300 volunteers from the Coast Guard along with their families today participated in a "clean up" drive along the nearby Fort Kochi beach.

International Volunteer Day: "Together We Can Through Volunteering" is the focus of IVD 2020 this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has thrown people across the world in an unprecedented crisis. IVD observed on December 5 every year is an opportunity for people to say a big thank you to all those who put service above self.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led over 50,000 volunteers in Dehradun today morning to mark the fourth International Yoga Day celebrations. In his address at Forest Research Institute, the Prime Minister said, "people across the country are welcoming the sun today. From Dehradun to Dublin, there's only Yoga." Indians should be proud of their traditio...

International Yoga Day celebrations will be led in the country by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will lead an estimated 50, 000 volunteers in Dehradun to mark the fourth anniversary of the occasion.

Sarvahitey is an NGO based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh which has been teaching children living in slums for the last 18 months at several locations in Delhi NCR. Recently, Sarvahitey conducted its monthly volunteers meeting where it was decided that Yoga classes should be included in the curriculum for the children.

Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party volunteers received BJP President Amit Shah at Nedumbassery International Airport in Kochi today. Mr Shah, who is on a three-day visit in Kerala, arrived in the southern state some days after the central government banned sale of cattle in animal markets for purposes other than agricultural and farm use.

Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today joined Coast Guard and volunteers in cleaning garbage from the beach in Puducherry as part of the '31nd International Coastal Clean Up Day'.

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.

Many passengers attempted to follow the volunteers as they were seen rotating their necks, shoulders and arms, while sitting on their seats.

More than 100 US cities will organise a 'Yogathon' on the first International Yoga Day to be celebrated on June 21, said Overseas Volunteer for a Better India (OVBI) - the the lead organisers - in a statement.

A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, today to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women.

About 300 volunteers from the Coast Guard along with their families today participated in a "clean up" drive along the nearby Fort Kochi beach.