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In view of the Covid-19 pandemic , this year's International Yoga Day would be celebrated on digital media platforms and there would be no mass gatherings, the government said on Friday. This year's theme will be 'Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family' . People will be able to join Yoga Day celebrations virtually at 7 am on June 21. Indian Missions abroad aretrying to reach out to the people through digital mediaas well through the network of institutions which support yoga, officials said. Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday performed Yoga with around 40,000 enthusiasts at the Prabhat Tara ground here and said everybody should practice the ancient Indian discipline lifelong. The Jharkhand capital has been selected as the venue for the main event for the 5th International Day of Yoga . Events to mark the day are being held across the country and several of them are being led by Union ministers, including Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh. Modi also said the government has been working to make Yoga a pillar of preventive healthcare. Expressing concern that young people are becoming vulnerable to heart ailments, Modi said, "Yoga can play a huge role in tackling the issue and hence, this year's theme is 'Yoga for Heart'." He also appealed to the people to take yoga to all sections of society. "We should make efforts to take yoga from cities to villages, tribal areas. Yoga is above region, above faith, above everything," Modi told t