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All India Council for Technical Education (अखिल भारतीय तकनीकी शिक्षा परिषद)

AICTE (अखिल भारतीय तकनीकी शिक्षा परिषद) is India's statutory regulator of technical education, founded 1945 as an advisory body and made statutory by the AICTE Act, 1987, approving technical institutions and setting norms and standards.

All India Football Federation (अखिल भारतीय फुटबॉल महासंघ)

All India Football Federation (AIFF, अखिल भारतीय फुटबॉल महासंघ), India's football governing body founded 1937 in Shimla; FIFA member since 1948, AFC founding member 1954; president Kalyan Chaubey, HQ New Delhi.

All India Forward Bloc

All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), founded by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939, is a left-wing Indian political party based in West Bengal, a Left Front member with Scientific Socialism as its stated objective.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Darbhanga (अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान, दरभंगा)

AIIMS Darbhanga (अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान, दरभंगा), Bihar's second AIIMS under PMSSY, approved 15 September 2020 at ₹1264 crore; land disputes delayed it, foundation stone laid November 2024, revised cost ₹2006.07 crore in 2026.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

AIIMS New Delhi (अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान) is India's premier autonomous medical university, established by the AIIMS Act of 1956, ranked first in NIRF Medical since 2018, with 25 clinical departments and a Ballabgarh rural health centre.

All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान)

All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS, अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान): autonomous Indian medical universities of national importance, starting with AIIMS New Delhi (AIIMS Act 1956) and 22 new AIIMS under PMSSY.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM, MIM), Hyderabad-based Muslim-led Indian political party led by Asaduddin Owaisi; founded 1927, revived 1958, holds Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat since 1984, expanded to Bihar's Seemanchal in 2020.

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (آل انڈیا مسلم پرسنل لا بورڈ)

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB, آل انڈیا مسلم پرسنل لا بورڈ), an Indian NGO founded 1973 to protect the Shariat Application Act 1937, runs dar-ul-qaza forums, litigates on triple talaq, UCC, and waqf, and faces Shia and women's rival boards.

All India Radio

All India Radio (Akashvani, आकाशवाणी), founded 8 June 1936, is India's national public radio broadcaster under Prasar Bharati, with 591 stations reaching 98% of the population in 23 languages.

All India Rank

All India Rank (अखिल भारतीय रैंक) is Varun Grover's 2023 Hindi directorial debut, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age dramedy about 17-year-old Vivek sent to Kota for IIT coaching in the 1990s; premiered at IFFR 2023, released 23 February 2024, streamed on Netflix from 19 April 2024.

All India Secondary School Examination

All India Secondary School Examination (AISSE), CBSE's Class X school-leaving board exam (केन्द्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड), first held 1977; 80-mark external papers plus 20 internal assessment marks, 33% pass criteria, nine-point grading.

All India Services

All India Services: India's IAS, IPS and IFoS, created under Article 312 and the All India Services Act 1951, recruited by UPSC, serving state cadres and the Union under central cadre and deputation rules.

All India Trade Union Congress

The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) is India's oldest trade union federation, founded in Bombay in 1920 with Lala Lajpat Rai as its first President.

All Inspire Health, Inc.

All Inspire Health, Inc., doing business as Inspiren, is a Brooklyn, New York healthcare-technology company founded in 2016 that develops AI-driven patient monitoring for senior living and hospitals.

All Is Beautiful... Because We're Doomed

All Is Beautiful... Because We're Doomed (aka All Is Beautiful... Because We Are Doomed) is We Came As Romans' seventh studio album, released August 22, 2025 on Sharptone Records; a 13-track, 41-minute looping metalcore concept album produced by Will Carlson.

All Is Lost

All Is Lost (2013) is J.C. Chandor's nearly dialogue-free survival drama starring Robert Redford as an unnamed sailor adrift in the Indian Ocean after a shipping container holes his 39-foot yacht; 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, Golden Globe wins for Redford and Alex Ebert's score.

All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade

All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade is the fourth studio album by Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men, released October 17, 2025 on Skarkali/Virgin Music Group; 13 tracks, self-produced in Iceland, titled after a song about mice sheltering in their studio.

All Is True

All Is True is a 2018 drama directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, written by Ben Elton, imagining Shakespeare's 1613-1616 retirement in Stratford after the Globe fire, with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen.

All Israel News

All Israel News is a Jerusalem-area English-language online news outlet for a worldwide Christian audience, launched on September 1, 2020 by Joel C. Rosenberg and Joseph Magen.

All Japan Pro Wrestling (全日本プロレス)

All Japan Pro Wrestling (全日本プロレス, AJPW) is a Japanese pro wrestling promotion founded in 1972 by Giant Baba, home of King's Road style, the Triple Crown title, and the 2000 Misawa split that created Pro Wrestling NOAH.

All Killer No Filler

All Killer No Filler is Sum 41's debut studio album, released May 8, 2001 on Island Records. Produced by Jerry Finn, it features "Fat Lip" and "In Too Deep", 13 tracks, 3× Platinum, Juno-nominated.

All Ladies Do It

All Ladies Do It (Così fan tutte) is Tinto Brass's 1992 Italian erotic comedy starring Claudia Koll and Paolo Lanza, loosely based on Mozart's opera, released 21 February 1992 and restored in 4K by Cult Epics in 2024.

All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling

All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling is the 1994 cassette debut of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 33 copies made by Efrim Menuck, lost for decades until a 2022 4chan leak was verified and officially released on Bandcamp.

All Lives Matter

All Lives Matter (ALM) is a 2014 social media slogan that emerged as a reactionary response to Black Lives Matter. It affirms attention to all lives.

All men are created equal

"All men are created equal" is the famous equality clause of the 1776 US Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson from George Mason's Virginia text, contested over slavery, and later invoked by Lincoln, Douglass, Stanton, and King.

All models are wrong

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" is an aphorism attributed to statistician George E. P. Box, holding that models are judged by usefulness, not truth.

All My Children

All My Children (AMC) was an ABC daytime soap opera created by Agnes Nixon, airing from Pine Valley, a fictional Philadelphia suburb, January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, famous for Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and pioneering storylines on abortion, AIDS, and LGBTQ topics.

All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend

All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend is AURORA's debut studio album, released March 11, 2016, with 13 tracks including Runaway and Murder Song; the debut-era archive The Moth Tapes follows in 2026.

All My Exes

All My Exes: "All My Ex's Live in Texas," 1987 George Strait country song by Whitey and Lyndia Shafer, second single from Ocean Front Property, No. 1 July 11, 1987, 1988 Grammy nominee.

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is Larry McMurtry's 1972 Simon & Schuster novel, second of his Houston books, following young writer Danny Deck from Texas to San Francisco after sudden literary success.