Seventeen-year-old visually impaired swimmer Ishwari Pande from Nagpur created history on Monday by becoming the world’s first completely blind swimmer to cross the Palk Strait from Sri Lanka to India.She began her record attempt at 4 am from Urmalai Point near Talaimannar in Sri Lanka and completed the journey at 3:15 pm, reaching Arichalmunai in Dhanushkodi. Ishwari covered the challenging stretch in 11 hours and 15 minutes.
The British Council will contract Disability Associate Advisors (AAs) to work alongside our Cultural Engagement Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team and programme teams to provide specialist input into our work, to help deliver the British Council’s objectives.
We work towards disability inclusion through projects that address disability-related issues and promote the empowerment of disabled people, as well as through mainstreaming disability inclusion across all our programmes.
Visually impaired student gets doctorate at central varsity
Clears the National Eligibility Test (NET) as well as the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) examination
As the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, awarded the PhD degree to Bhadur Lal during the 12th convocation ceremony of the Central University of Haryana (CUH) in Mahendragarh, the old adage, “Where there is a will, there is a way,” was underlined once again.
Jammu and Kashmir celebrated a moment of pride as a visually impaired JNU graduate, a labourer’s son, and a serving JKAS officer cracked the prestigious UPSC Civil Services Examination-2025, showcasing determination and inspiring many.
Having lost an eye in an accident at school during his early childhood, Irfan Ahmad Lone never let the impairment come in his way.
Lone, a resident of Manzpora in the Naidkhai area of the north Kashmir district, secured all India rank (AIR) of 957, bringing pride and celebrations to the frontier district.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced a support framework for the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).
In a major step toward disability inclusion, AIIMS on Monday distributed AI-enabled smart vision glasses to 53 blind and severely visually impaired individuals, helping them to interpret surroundings through sound.
The Supreme Court on Monday (February 16, 2026) granted a week to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to file its compliance affidavit on the proposed plan of action, timeline, and modalities for the deployment and use of screen-reader software for visually impaired candidates in examinations conducted by the Commission.
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