{"id":70971,"date":"2017-06-11T11:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=70971"},"modified":"2017-06-11T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T05:48:31","slug":"yoga-day-lucknow-students-perform-un-headquarters-times-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=70971","title":{"rendered":"On Yoga Day, Lucknow students to perform at UN headquarters | Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As Lucknow gears up to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the country&#8217;s main Yoga Day event, a group of school students from the city are practicing to perform various <em>asanas<\/em> at the UN headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>A 72-member team of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, will leave for the United States tomorrow for a live performance at the United Nations Headquarters on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>On May 19, they staged a special performance before Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his official residence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have trained 72 students from different classes to perform at the mega event on Yoga day at UN. It will also be attended by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres,&#8221; CMS founder Jagadish Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will leave for the US tomorrow and also visit parts of New York during their stay. A special performance was arranged at the CM&#8217;s residence where the students were also awarded,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On PM Modi&#8217;s call, the UN General Assembly declared in December 2014 that June 21 would be observed as International Yoga Day every year.<\/p>\n<p>Lucknow will be hosting the main event for the Yoga Day this year in which the PM and Yogi will participate along with 55,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Lucknow, the government had been considering Bhopal, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Ranchi and Bengaluru as possible venues for the mega event.<\/p>\n<p>The first Yoga Day celebration in the country was organised at the Rajpath in New Delhi on June 21, 2015, in which representatives of 191 countries had participated.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the main was organised at Chandigarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As Lucknow gears up to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the country&#8217;s main Yoga Day event, a group of school students from the city are practicing to perform various asanas at the UN headquarters in New York. A 72-member team of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, will leave for the United States [&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":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70971"}],"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=70971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}