Haryana is planning to introduce yoga classes in government schools across the state inspired by popular yoga guru Ramdev.

Swami Ramdev said Patanjali Yogapeeth would be world’s biggest yoga and Ayurvedic center. He said as Adi Shankaracharya established four Maths, four branches of his Yogapeeth would be setup. The yoga revolution must reach the last person in the last village. He defended his curative path, saying he would soon prove this could take on modern drugs. “I will be bringing out a document which will show yoga can cure not only cancer but also AIDS.”

The Central Industrial Security Force unit at Mahipalpur in the Capital had a very special early morning visitor this Sunday -- yoga guru Swami Ramdev. Roping in the much talked about expert to make the men in khaki posted at Delhi airport better at their job, a special yoga camp was organised to teach the CISF functionaries the healing powers of "pranayam''.

After winning millions of followers in India, renowned Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev is all set to conduct his training camps on foreign soil, starting with Pakistan in July.

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The skeleton dust controversy almost reduced to ashes, Baba Ramdev’s dream project took off today amid much fanfare. There was also a surprise gift for the new-age guru. After the Patanjali Yog Peeth was inaugurated near Hardwar, Uttaranchal chief minister N.D. Tiwari announced that he had decided to award it university status and make Ramdev its vice-chancellor for life.

The likes of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav, Chandra Babu Naidu and Sheila Dixit were in Haridwar to support yoga guru Baba Ramdev's new venture. Vice President Bharon Singh Shekhwat inaugurated Ramdev's ayurvedic hospital Pithanjali at a mega function on Thursday. "I'm here because this is one of the greatest things that is happening in India," said Naidu.

Building bridges between science and sprituality, Indian Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Professor Harry Kroto are coming face to face here today under the aegis of a leading business chamber. Baba Ramdev, along with Professor Kroto, will share the Roundtable on Science and Sprituality- Building the Bridge, in which President of the US-based Nanobiosym, Dr Anita Goel and President of Heseltine Foundation for Medical Science and the Arts, Dr William A Heseltine will also participate.

The week-long "Yoga Vigyan Shivir"of Baba Ramdev concluded here on Saturday leaving behind a trail of memories for the people of the state to cherish and learn from. The conclusion of the camp left hundreds and thousands of people across the state disappointed as they were deeply immersed in the overwhelming activities at the shivir.

All roads led to Ramdev's first "Yoga Vigyan Shivir" at Gandhi Maidan here on Sunday at an unearthly hour of 4 am. The city seemed to come alive with thousands of men women and children hurrying to catch the first sight of the man who has taken the nation's imagination by storm.

The Bihar government has decided to project yoga guru Baba Ramdev as their new brand ambassador. The government's aim is to bring to the world's notice the backwardness of the state and the state's often ignored virtues through the yoga guru.

Impressed by Baba Ramdev's capability to inculcate a spirit of zeal and zest in people's lives, the Bihar government has decided to appoint Baba Ramdev as the brand ambassador of the state.

Yoga guru Swami Ramdev today praised Railway Minister Lalu Prasad for his statement in the wake of the controversy caused by CPI-M leader Brinda Karat's allegation that the aurvedic medicines manufactured at his pharmacy contained animal and human bones.

Claiming that he had cured many cancer patients through yoga, Swami Ramdev today said he would come out very soon with a therapy combining herbal medicine and yoga to "tackle" AIDS. ''I may sound unrealistic. But, wait and see. I will soon come out with a treatment for AIDS through yoga and ayurveda,'' he said during a session with Bihar legislators here.

Over 100 legislators of the Bihar assembly and legislative council from all the parties had a nearly two-hour session with Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev today.

He’s revered by the masses. And now, yogic healer Swami Ramdev is finding audience in the corporate circles. A leading industry chamber, Assocham, is hosting Ramdev to address major players from the world of biotechnology and nanotechnology on the importance of ayurveda in the modern world, sources revealed.

Making a scathing attack on the allopathic system of medicine, Yoga guru Swami Ramdev today alleged that almost 90 per cent of laboratory tests 'unnecessarily' recommended in big hospitals and leading clinics were meant for 'earning quick bucks' and asserted that in near future Yoga will push the allopathy to the background.

Widely popular tele-guru Baba Ramdev has said that he has no plans to join politics, though he would like to guide politicians in the right direction. "Neither in the past was I associated with politics, nor today I have any association with politics and I will never join politics. It is out of question for me to jump into politics," Baba Ramdev told reporters here on Monday.

With yoga Guru Swami Ramdev in Bihar, fitness fever seems to have gripped top politicians with several of them attending his camp as trainees. Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Speaker Udai Narayan Chaudhary, and Urban Development Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, who attended the yoga camp on the opening day yesterday, sang paeans to the Baba's simple ways of teaching the traditional art of keeping fit.

Embattled Baba Ramdev has heaved a sigh of relief after the Utaranchal Government gave him a clean chit stating that no animal parts were found in the medicines prepared by his Haridwar-based pharmacy.