Question: International Day of Yoga was celebrated on 21 June 2016 across the world. What is the theme of this year’s Yoga Day?
(a) Yoga for harmony and peace
(b) Yoga for Harmony
(c) Connect the Youth
(d) Yoga for Peace and Development
Ans:(c)
Related facts:
- On 21 June 2016 International Day of Yoga was celebrated across the world.
- India’s Permanent Mission to the UN has organized celebrations at the United Nations on June 20 and 21.
- A special event titled “Conversation with Yoga Masters – Yoga for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” was organised.
- This year’s celebration was marked under the theme “Connect the Youth”.
- It may be recalled that on 11 December 2014 UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/69/131 designated 21 June International Day of Yoga.
- Spiritual leader and Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev lead the yoga session held at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
- This yoga session was attended by 135 countries for the first time.
- On the occasion Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated second International Yoga Day in Chandigarh.
- Where he joined approximately 30,000 participants in a mass Yoga demonstration.
- The Prime Minister called for focus in the next one year, on how to mitigate diabetes through Yoga.
- He said that to honour those who are working to popularize Yoga, two awards will be instituted, one at the national level, and the other at the international level.
- On this day Baba Ramdev performed Yoga with One lakh people in Faridabad, Haryana and the performance has also been recorded in Guinness Book Of World Records.
- 408 people from Patanjali set a world record by doing shirsaasan (standing on one’s head) at the same time for 5 seconds, previously the record was held by Citizen land where 265 people has performed shirsaasan(standing on one’s head) at the same time.
- In the same program Rohtash Chaudhary set another world record by performing 51 push-ups in 1 minute with 80 pounds on his back.
Reference:
http://www.un.org/en/events/yogaday/
http://www.un.org/en/events/yogaday/events.shtml
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/06/media-advisory-yoga-for-sdgs-un-international-day-of-yoga/
http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/cabinet-approves-special-package-for-employment-generation-and-promotion-of-exports-in-textile-and-apparel-sector/?comment=disable
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/On-Intnl-Yoga-Day-Ramdev-sets-eyes-on-four-world-records/articleshow/52812509.cms