{"id":46050,"date":"2017-03-08T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=46050"},"modified":"2017-03-08T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T04:30:50","slug":"centre-shortlists-names-cities-yoga-day-event-economics-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=46050","title":{"rendered":"Centre shortlists names of cities for Yoga Day event &#124; The Economics Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has shortlisted the names of a few cities, including Bengaluru,\u00a0Ahmedabad and Ranchi, for selecting the venue of the main function of International Yoga Day this year.<br \/>\n&#8220;The main function of International Yoga Day (IYD) will be held outside Delhi. A few names have been shortlisted for the venue. Bhopal, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Ranchi and Bengaluru are the probable names.<br \/>\n&#8220;The final decision will be taken in a couple of weeks,&#8221; Director of Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga I V Basavaraddi told reporters here today.<br \/>\nBasavaraddi was addressing a press conference at the institute a day ahead of the International Yoga Fest, a curtain-raiser to IYD, that would be held to sensitise the masses about the grand function on June 21.<br \/>\n&#8220;The festival is being held on March 8-9 at the Talkatora Stadium followed by a workshop on March 10,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;This year we are also paying tribute to two yoga gurus, who have passed away. Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu will inaugurate the function,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has shortlisted the names of a few cities, including Bengaluru,\u00a0Ahmedabad and Ranchi, for selecting the venue of the main function of International Yoga Day this year. &#8220;The main function of International Yoga Day (IYD) will be held outside Delhi. A few names have been shortlisted for the venue. Bhopal, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}