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India sets two Guinness records on the International Yoga Day

| | Jun 22, 2015, at 04:44 pm
New Delhi, June 22 (IBNS) As the first International Day of Yoga was celebrated across the world on Sunday amid a fanfare India set up two Guinness World Records with 35,985 people participating in performing asanas at a single venue in Rajpath and 84 nationalities joining in the official observation of the day.

Reports said the Rajpath event broke the previous record of a gathering of 29,973 people, held by  Gwalior's Jiwaji University.

The other record was for the largest number of nationalities at a yoga event. Volunteers and invitees from 84 different countries took part in it.

A two-member team from London on behalf of Guinness World Records was in Delhi to oversee the arrangements.  The data was audited by Ernest & Young.

The day was named by the United Nations following a proposal pitched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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