Technology

Global Indian Scientists & Technocrats (GIST) meet begins at IISF 2020

Global Indian Scientists & Technocrats (GIST) meet begins at IISF2020; No country can achieve global solutions in isolation; Such challenges can be addressed through cooperation, particularly seamless scientific and technological cooperation; There is enormous untapped potential in connecting and engaging with the Indian scientific diaspora – not only for the benefit of our national development but also for the global good […]

Corona Virus

8 Vaccines including 3 indigenous are scheduled to be manufactured in India

Dr. Harsh Vardhan addresses World Bank Inter-Ministerial Meet on Vaccinating South Asia; 8 candidates including 3 indigenous ones are scheduled to be manufactured in India; With stringent oversight, we are ensuring, that there is no compromise on scientific and regulatory norms, stretching from the safety of the trials to the efficacy of the vaccines; CO-WIN digital platform will allow citizens to self-register for vaccination, monitor their status and be provided with a QR code-based electronic vaccination certificate” […]

Health Care

Centre rushes medical experts team to Eluru

Centre rushing medical experts team to Eluru following Vice President’s intervention; Vice President speaks to Union Health Minister after children with an undiagnosed illness are hospitalized in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh; Health minister assures all help; says reports of samples are awaited; Vice President was informed that blood samples sent to AIIMS Delhi […]

Health Care

Tuberculosis to be eradicated by 2025

Dr. Harsh Vardhan meets Development Partners to discuss the challenge and opportunity in eradicating TB by 2025; Sets the way forward; “At a time, when COVID is taking prioritized attention, we should not lose sight of the goal to eliminate TB by 2025. Advocacy and engagement are a way to move forward.”; “Fight against TB needs to be through a Jan Andolan- a People’s Movement”; Important to address issues of stigma: Dr Harsh Vardhan […]

Technology

Harsh Vardhan gives away 21 Gandhian Young Technological Awards

Dr. Harsh Vardhan gives away Gandhian Young Technological Awards in two categories -SITARE-GYTI and SRISTI-GYTI awards; Fourteen awards and eleven appreciationsunder SITARE-GYTI, and Seven awards and 16 appreciations under SRISTI-GYTI presented; “Over Rs. ten Crores worth of other awards and investment mobilized by SITARE-GYTI winners so far, besides 89 publications, and 39 patents” […]

Foreign Relations

Dr. Harshvardhan talks to ASEAN Health Ministers on COVID related activities

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare joined a virtual meeting of the Regional Director of WHO for South East Asia (SEA) Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh with Ministers for Health of the member states of the region. The meet was focused on maintaining essential health services and public health programmes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Foreign Relations

Foreign Secretary and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister discuss on the BRICS framework

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov held a telephonic conversation today that inter alia covered high-level exchanges between both sides; forthcoming calendar of high-level meetings in the framework of BRICS and SCO; and interactions and meetings at various levels preparatory to the India-Russia Summit later in the year. […]

Corona Virus

Government permits exports of ventilators

The Group of Ministers (GOM) on COVID-19 has considered and agreed to the proposal of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare allowing the export of made-in-India ventilators. This decision has been communicated to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) for further needed action to facilitate the export of indigenously manufactured ventilators. […]

Health Care

Book released on Standard Treatment Guidelines for of Substance Use Disorders and Behavioral Addictions

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare released the e-book titled “Standard Treatment Guidelines for the Management of Substance Use Disorders and Behavioural Addictions” that aims to tackle substance abuse and behavioral addiction in the country, here today, through video conference, in the presence of Sh. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, MoS (HFW). […]