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TopicRajkumari Amrit Kaur

Topic: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

No insult to Ayurveda. AIIMS an attempt to bring good standards of medical education—Amrit Kaur

Amrit Kaur -
On 18 February 1956, 'Rajkumari' Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, moved the Bill in Lok Sabha for the establishment of AIIMS in Delhi. She wanted it to have the powers and functions of a university because it will 'probably make revolutionary changes in curriculum as well as in modes of teaching'.

AIIMS Delhi — India’s best medical college that’s home to many leaders of Covid battle

Simrin Sirur -
Year after year, AIIMS has been adjudged the best medical institution in a country that has over 540 medical colleges. Doctors & students tell us why.

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the princess who was Gandhi’s secretary & India’s first health minister

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
On her 130th birth anniversary, ThePrint looks at the life of the princess who served as Mahatma Gandhi’s secretary for nearly 17 years.

On Camera

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Opinion

Supreme Court’s NCERT textbook order punishes the messenger, doesn’t answer the message

Shankar Sharan -
The portion of the NCERT Class 8 textbook that the Supreme Court deemed objectionable included remarks made by the outgoing CJI BR Gavai in June 2025.

Zohran Mamdani’s shaky politics has come home to bite

Now is India’s chance to reform its electricity system—utilise the energy crisis

Economy

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

Udit Bubna -
IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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