seats as institutional preference seats for its own undergraduate MBBS students, resulted in a controversy as it practically resulted in a 100% reservation for subjects, was struck down by the Supreme Court of India. In 2006 Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who was a supporter of 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes, caused a controversy when he replaced P. Venugopal with T. D. Dogra as Director of AIIMS (New Delhi). The initial personality conflict between Ramadoss and Venugopal later become politicised as a conflict on reservation issue, as anti-reservation students and faculty of AIIMS (New Delhi) went on strike in favor of Venugopal. The issue was put to rest when Venugopal was reinstated by the Supreme Court. AIIMS server attack On 23 November 2022, servers of AIIMS New Delhi were hacked by a ransomware attack after an employee opened a phishing mail. The hackers have encrypted the servers and were demanding ₹200 crores in cryptocurrency, however Delhi Police did not confirmed reports of ransom demand. Patient care services in emergency, outpatient, inpatient and laboratory wings were forced to be managed manually. Investigation has confirmed that five main servers were targeted by Chinese hackers based out of Hong Kong. Delhi Police, Representatives of Ministry of Home Affairs, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) are investigating the ransomware attack. A case of extortion and cyber terrorism was registered by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police on November 25. The online registration of new patients visiting the OPD at the AIIMS resumed on 6 December 2022 while online OPD booking system was restored by 2nd week of December 2022. Notable people Directors of AIIMS New Delhi Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit (1956–64), Padma Bhushan, founder Director Khushwant Lal Wig (1964–69), Padma Vibhushan, first Dean of the Faculty V. Ramalingaswami (1969–1979), Padma Vibhushan, first Director-General of Indian Council of Medical Research L. P. Agarwal (1979–80) H. D. Tandon (1980–1984) Sneh Bhargava (1984–1990) S. K. Kacker (1990–1995) L. M. Nath (1995–1996) L. K. Bhutani (1996) P. K. Dave (1996–2003) P. Venugopal (2003–2007) (May–June 2008), Padma Bhushan Tirath Das Dogra (2007–2009), a forensic expert in India Ramesh C. Deka (2009–2013) M. C. Misra (2013–2017) Randeep Guleria (2017–2022) M. Srinivas (2022- Continuing) Faculty Abul K Abbas, Chair of Department of Pathology at University of California San Francisco Alka Kriplani, Padma Shri