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Harsh Vardhan is the incumbent minister at the Ministry of Science & Technology. He also holds the charge of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Earth Sciences in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He represents Chandni Chowk in Delhi as an MP in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was also the Chief Ministerial candidate for the BJP in the 2013 Delhi assembly election.
Harsh Vardhan was born on December 13, 1954, in Delhi to Om Prakash Goel and Sneh Lata. He has been an RSS member since his childhood. He holds an MBBS degree from Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur. He earned his Master of Surgery in Otorhinolaryngology from the same college in 1983. He is married and the couple has three children.
In 1992, he was elected as a member of the Delhi Assembly representing Krishna Nagar. He was appointed as the State Minister of Health and Minister of Law for Delhi. He later became the state Minister of Education in 1996. Vardhan has been re-elected from the same constituency in the 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013 elections.
In the 2019 elections, Harsh Vardhan contested the Chandni Chowk seat in Delhi where he defeated Congress candidate Jai Prakash Agarwal. On May 30, 2019, he was sworn in as a Cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term government.
Vikas Mehta December 3, 2024 6:50 PM IST
Harsh Bardhan Singh was a native of Saharsa district in Bihar. His father is posted as the SDM in the Devsar tehsil of Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh. Harsh Vardhan completed his schooling in MP and also earned his B.Tech from NIT Indore.
Gazi Abbas Shahid March 3, 2024 4:23 PM IST
In an extensive post on his X handle, Harsh Vardhan, 69, detailed his long political career spanning over three decades, during which he won all five assembly polls as well as two parliamentary elections.
PTI April 4, 2022 7:02 PM IST
Before his diplomatic posting to Nepal in 2020, Kwatra served as the Ambassador of India to France from August 2017 to February 2020.
India.com News Desk March 2, 2022 4:14 PM IST
Russian Ambassador-designate Denis Alipov on Wednesday said a 'humanitarian corridor' is being created for the safe passage to Russian territory of Indians stuck in Kharkiv, Sumy and other conflict zones in Ukraine.
India.com News Desk March 1, 2022 11:28 PM IST
Experts close to the developments told a news channel that the Indian embassy is likely to be relocated to western Ukraine's Lviv, for which office space has been identified.
India.com News Desk February 22, 2022 6:10 PM IST
"This morning we made a statement at UNSC. We've been clear there should be the de-escalation of tensions, that the world can't afford another conflict, that diplomacy and diplomatic efforts are the only way to reach an amicable solution acceptable to all," said Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Russia-Ukraine crisis.
India.com News Desk September 4, 2021 11:53 AM IST
When asked about India's stand on UNSC delisting of Taliban, Shringla said,"We've to see how situation evolves. Are we immediately going to take steps? Don't think so. Are we going to calibrate decisions according to what happens? I think that would be the case."
India.com News Desk July 25, 2021 8:06 AM IST
Recently, France, the second-largest European Union nation which has recently included Covishield in the list of approved vaccines for travel to the country.
India.com News Desk July 7, 2021 4:41 PM IST
This will be the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.
India.com News Desk July 7, 2021 7:15 PM IST
With India facing one of its toughest challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Ministry was heavily criticised for mishandling the crisis situation.
India.com News Desk May 26, 2021 4:28 PM IST
Earlier, the office of the principal scientific adviser to the government issued a guideline stating that the infected aerosols can be carried in the air up to 10 meters.
Victor Dasgupta May 21, 2021 10:03 PM IST
Earlier, Harsh Vardhan had said India will have procured 267 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of this year, and will be in a position to inoculate at least all of its adult population, according to an official statement.
India.com News Desk May 21, 2021 11:08 PM IST
This comes in the backdrop of PM Modi highlighting the threat of mucormycosis or black fungus.
India.com News Desk May 20, 2021 4:50 PM IST
Seven states have more than 25 pc COVID-19 case positivity, while 22 states have more than 15 pc case positivity, says Government.
India.com News Desk May 13, 2021 4:23 PM IST
187 districts have shown a continued decline in cases since last 2 weeks: Lav Agarwal, Union Health Ministry, Joint Secretary
India.com News Desk May 12, 2021 6:26 PM IST
The High Court also said that if the Union government had started a door-to-door vaccination programme for senior citizens a few months back, then lives of many of them, including prominent persons, could have been saved.
India.com News Desk May 11, 2021 4:36 PM IST
States like Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Odisha, Punjab, Assam, J&K, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh are showing continued increasing trend in daily new cases, the Ministry of Health
ANI Feeds May 8, 2021 9:25 PM IST
The progress on epidemiological evidence, new technical advisories for dynamic guidance and hand holding of states/UTs etc., through various stakeholders was also enumerated.
India.com News Desk May 8, 2021 3:42 PM IST
The ministry has asked chief secretaries of states and Union Territories to issue necessary orders and circulars and asked them to implement the new rules within the next three days.
India.com News Desk May 5, 2021 9:23 AM IST
Subramanian Swamy also warned of a third COVID wave which could target children more and urged the government to 'delegate the conduct of this war to Gadkari.'
India.com News Desk April 21, 2021 8:45 PM IST
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday alleged that an official of the Haryana government stopped oxygen supply to Delhi from a plant in Faridabad.
India.com News Desk April 15, 2021 7:05 PM IST
Government of India has decided to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Postgraduate exam which was earlier scheduled to be held on April 18.
India.com News Desk April 13, 2021 6:44 PM IST
The drug inspectors and other officers have been directed to verify stocks and check their malpractices and also take other effective actions to curb hoarding and black marketing.
India.com News Desk April 9, 2021 7:26 PM IST
131,968 fresh infections were registered in the last 24 hours and that Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Rajasthan have shown a steep rise in daily cases accounting for 83.29 per cent of the new infections,
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