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DIBRUGARH, 7 Apr:<\/strong> Union AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal along with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein, and the health ministers of Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur attended a ‘Yoga Mahotsav’ here in Assam on Friday.<\/p>\n Union MoS for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Rameshwar Teli and union MoS for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh also attended the Yoga Mahotsav, marking the 75 days’ countdown to the International Day of Yoga.<\/p>\n International students from Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Togo, Nepal, Nigeria, Lesotho, Botswana, Egypt, Namibia and Korea, apart from other students and yoga enthusiasts also participated in the mahotsav.<\/p>\n Speaking at the event, Mein said that “yoga is a wonderful gift of India’s rich heritage that has benefitted the world to become a healthier place.”<\/p>\n ”Led by the prime minister, yoga has become a global movement. I am happy that I can participate in this event today as we work towards a healthier tomorrow,” Mein added.<\/p>\n Sonowal said that a 100-bedded yoga and naturopathy hospital will be set up here.<\/p>\n “The hospital will be set up by the AYUSH ministry, and will further bolster Dibrugarh as the centre of healthcare in the region,” he said.<\/p>\n Saha on his part said that, “Being a doctor, I understand the scores of benefits that yoga has to offer.<\/p>\n “I thank our AYUSH minister for inviting me to this wonderful event and making me part of a movement towards realising the vision of our prime minister of a healthy India,” he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DIBRUGARH, 7 Apr: Union AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal along with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein, and the health ministers of Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur attended a ‘Yoga Mahotsav’ here in Assam on Friday. Union MoS for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Rameshwar Teli and union MoS for External Affairs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}