International Yoga Day celebration in Bangkok

BANGKOK, June 18 (TNA) - More than 1,000 Thais and people of Indian origin on Sunday morning joined in exercising Yoga at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. The Yoga exercise lasted 40 minutes and was organised jointly by the Indian embassy in Thailand and the university. The annual event, held for the third time in Thailand, was organised to celebrate the United Nations’ resolution, which has declared June 21 of every year as ‘International Day of Yoga’. Indian ambassador to Thailand Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi expressed his joy that more Thai people are interested in exercising Yoga and he wanted to invite more people to practise Yoga to improve their health and mind. (TNA)