Mint has learnt. With many countries opening up, albeit cautiously this year, after being shut down due to covid-19 last year, on the back of the hope that the pandemic was waning, Yoga Day events were likely to be a mix of people doing yoga with social distancing in the outdoors in smaller numbers and people performing the exercises from their homes.
Besides this, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will attend in person a meeting of national security advisors in Tajikistan of the regional Shanghai Cooperation Organisation that brings together Central Asian countries, Russia, China, and Pakistan besides India.
With Doval expected to come face to face with his newly appointed Pakistani counterpart Moeed Yusuf, speculation is rife of a