India bends it everywhere on International Yoga Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed confidence that yoga will continue playing its preventive, as well as promotive role in the healthcare of masses.

A morning walker performs yoga on the occasion of International Yoga Day at Lodhi garden in New Delhi. (Photo | Parveen Negi 

President Ram Nath Kovind performs yoga in New Delhi. He greeted citizens on International Yoga Day and said it can be extremely helpful during Covid. (Photo PTI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday 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.

Addressing the 7th International Yoga Day programme, 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 of the world. (Photo | R Satish Babu, EPS)

Students perform yoga organised by the Archaeological Survey of India at Undavalli caves in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. (Photo | P Ravindra Babu, EPS)

A total of 750 recruits, soldiers and families members of The Madras Regimental Centre, Wellington in Nilgiris practiced yoga including various Asanas, Yogic Kriyas, and Pranayam. (Photo | Special Arrangement)

Students perform Yoga in Srinagar. (Photo | PTI)

Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (I/C), Prahlad Singh Patel with other people take part in a demonstration of Common Yoga Protocol at Red Fort, New Delhi. (Photo | Parveen Negi, EPS)

Telangana BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay and former MP Vijayashanti along with others doing yoga at BJP state office in Hyderabad on Monday. (Photo | R V K Rao, EPS)

Participants perform 'Asana' on the occasion of International Yoga in Pondicherry. (Photo | G Pattabiraman,, EPS)

COVID-19 patients wearing PPE kit perform yoga on International Day of Yoga, at Codissia in Coimbatore. (Photo | PTI)

A woman practices yoga at RK beach in Visakhapatnam on Monday. (Photo | G Satyanarayana, EPS)