Harsh Vardhan

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Who's replacing Harsh Vardhan, Sadhvi Pragya, Meenakshi Lekhi, and more

LIVE: Council of ministers brainstorms over 'Viksit Bharat 2047' plan

From former Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announcing retirement from politics to CBI filing charge sheet against 7 in Manipur in armoury loot case, catch all the updates here

Denied BJP ticket, Harsh Vardhan announces retirement from active politics

With sitting MP Harsh Vardhan's name not figuring from his Chandni Chowk constituency in the list of candidates announced by the BJP for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, he on Sunday announced bowing out of active politics. In a long post on X, Vardhan said he will return to his roots after over 30 years of a "glorious electoral career". Looking back at his journey, he said, "I shall continue to pursue my work against tobacco and substance abuse, against climate change and teaching simple and sustainable lifestyles." "After over thirty years of a glorious electoral career, during which I won all the five assembly and two parliamentary elections that I fought with exemplary margins, and held a multitude of prestigious positions in the party organisation and the governments at the state and centre I finally bow out to return to my roots," he said on X. In the first list of 195 candidates declared by the BJP, Praveen Khandelwal has been fielded from Chandni Chowk, a seat which ...

India transformed into global superpower only in last 8 yrs: Harsh Vardhan

PM Modi has transformed India from a third-world country into a global superpower in the last eight years, said Harsh Vardhan while lauding the BJP-led Centre's major decisions in the last eight years

SC declines to entertain SLP against Harsh Lodha at 'present stage'

The petitions were filed by two members of the APL Committee - a court-appointed committee to administer the estate of Priyamvada Birla

Real winners of the reshuffle

New responsibilities for the finance minister and the home minister indicate the government's focus on privatisation and cooperatives

Cabinet reshuffle: Full list of Modi govt ministers, and their portfolios

Among key changes in the reshuffle, Mansukh Mandaviya has become Union health minister, and Jyotiraditya Scindia civil aviation minister. Here's how the full list of ministers in the Modi Cabinet

Cabinet reshuffle: Harsh Vardhan fails to clear test ahead of third wave

India's management of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic drew all-round criticism both within the country and outside.

Harsh Vardhan's resignation a message for other ministers: Chidambaram

Several heavyweight ministers are resigning before the massive reshuffle of the Modi government this evening.

Prez accepts resignations of 12 Union ministers including Prasad, Javadekar

President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignations of 12 Union ministers, including Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar and Harsh Vardhan, with immediate effect, according to an official statement on Wednesday. These resignations came ahead of a major expansion and reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers later in the day. In all, six Cabinet Ministers, one Minister of State (Independent Charge) and five Ministers of State have resigned. Those resigned include Cabinet Ministers D V Sadananda Gowda (Chemical and Fertilizers), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Law and Justice, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology), Thaawarchand Gehlot (Social Justice and Empowerment), Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank' (Education), Harsh Vardhan (Health and Family Welfare) and Prakash Javadekar (Environment, Forest and Climate Change). The resignation of Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour and Employment, has also been accepted by the president. Five ...

CoWIN goes global: India makes tech open source, 142 nations show interest

This is perhaps the first time any nation is making a software platform developed by its public sector initiative open for the world

India believes there is urgent need for major reforms in WHO: Harsh Vardhan

India believes there is an urgent need for carrying out "major reforms" in the World Health Organization to ensure a timely, focused and effective response to potential future pandemics

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The sharp cuts in vaccine supply projections are baffling

Tobacco control needs to be pursued like mission, says Harsh Vardhan

Tobacco use is so interwoven in our society that untiring efforts are required to fight this epidemic and tobacco control needs to be pursued like a mission, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said

Relevance of Yoga increased during Covid-19 pandemic, says Harsh Vardhan

On seventh International Day of Yoga, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that Yoga has helped people to maintain physical and mental health during Covid-19

Covid mutated and citizens let down guard, leading to second wave: Vardhan

While the coronavirus mutated and evolved, citizens let their guard down and all this led to a spike in cases, snowballing into the second wave, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday. Vardhan made these remarks after distributing masks among frontline workers at the Union Health Ministry. He stated that although this gesture was symbolic, people from various industries and corporate houses, and political leaders holding office could start a virtuous chain by emulating the exercise, eventually amplifying the Jan Andolan to protect everyone from COVID-19 through Covid appropriate behaviour, a Health Ministry statement said. The aim of the exercise in the Health Ministry is to distribute masks to all employees, starting with the frontline workers and eventually moving to other staff. "The government worked round the clock to stop COVID-19 last year. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, we were immensely successful in decreasing the active caseload to

Vardhan chairs meet to discuss crowd-funding for treating rare diseases, TB

Harsh Vardhan chaired a high-level virtual meeting with associations representing business corporate entities and select PSUs to discuss voluntary crowd-funding for treatment and care of patients

Rahul Gandhi accuses govt of saving PM's image amid vaccine shortage

It's unfortunate that such an important issue is being politicised, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan alleged

Harsh Vardhan addresses WHO high level coalition on health, energy

The Covid pandemic has reiterated a massive interdependence among various sectors and the need to ensure inter-connectedness is reflected in policies for effective and service delivery he said.

No scope for industry to stick to IPR during pandemic: Harsh Vardhan

Affordability too is a key driving factor to achieve our aim of health for all, said Varshan