The flagship event happened at the the Parc de la Villette in northeastern Paris, which was organised by the Embassy of India, in collaboration with numerous yoga associations from all over France.
Alok Mukherjee announced his resignation effective from August 1, during a board meeting on Thursday, reported the Toronto Star. He served as the chairman since 2005.
The shooting in a historic US church on Wednesday night has come to haunt those who lost their dear ones in a similar traumatic attack about three years ago by a White supremacist in a Wisconsin state gurdwara, killing six Indian-origin people.
Ontario's Correctional Services Ministry is investigating after a riot at the maximum security Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene.
As the white young man who killed nine people at a historic US black church faced a court, many victims' families forgave him, but South Carolina's Indian American governor Nikki Haley sought the death penalty for him.
While one Indian-American Republican governor sought to lay a healing salve after the horrific mass shooting at a historic American church, another chose to take cheap political pot shots at President Barack Obama.