International Yoga Day 2025 LIVE updates: Let this Yoga Day mark the beginning of Yoga for humanity 2.0, says PM Modi
The Yoga Day programme is organised along a 26-km-long corridor from R.K. Beach in the port city of Visakhapatnam, which stretches up to Bhogapuram.
Also read: 25,000 tribal students perform 108 Surya Namaskarams in 108 minutes in Vizag
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Visakhapatnam on Friday (June 20, 2025) night to take part in the celebration.
The Andhra Pradesh government is aiming to set a string of records in Yoga by mobilising several lakh people, not just in Visakhapatnam but by organising simultaneous activities across the state on June 21.
When India proposed June 21 to be celebrated as International Yoga day, in short time 175 countries accepted it, PM Modi in Visakhapatanam.
Many countries across the world are set to celebrate Yoga Day.
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