The commission, probing allegations of discrimination against SC students and doctors, said the premier institute had been following an 'illegal reservation policy' and sought its amendment.
The rare letter was written by Gandhi, 19 days before his assassination, for the 'Harijan' on January 11, 1948.
The Red Cross society has not taken kindly to its ubiquitous symbol being used by Indian Oil.
Singh received the letter on Saturday from AIIMS Administration Officer R K Dabral stating that 'the re-examination will not be counted as an attempt nor it will be quoted as precedence in future.'
Every year about 1.30 lakh new cases of cervical cancer are detected, while 70-80,000 women die of this disease every year in the country, Das said.
In yet another move in his battle with the health minister, AIIMS Director P Venugopal on Saturday shot off a letter to Registrar V P Gupta asking him to "report to a rural health centre".
With an estimated 2.3 million homosexuals and another 2.35 lakh male sex workers, the government is planning to scale up its intervention with this "hidden population" to reduce their exposure to HIV/AIDS.
Legislators and influential persons in the government contact senior faculty members for health problems, and the faculty members in turn, take advantage of their contact to influence their own selections and promotions.
These findings further emphasise the importance of quitting smoking.
The CT scanner captures the images of the heart and coronary arteries in as few as five heartbeats.
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