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Visually impaired get tips on skill development in Hyderabad |
HYDERABAD: “Even charity has become a rat race today. We have many NGOs which claim to do good work for the visually impaired, but there are very few which actually empower them.
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16/Jul/2019 |
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Viewing the draft National Education Policy 2019 through the disability lens - Guest column by Shampa Sengupta |
72% of India's disabled children between 0-5 years miss out on an education, while just 61% of disabled children between 5 to 19 years attend school, says a UN report. Things the draft National... |
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15/Jul/2019 |
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Brain implant restores partial vision to blind people |
Medical experts hail ‘paradigm shift’ of implant that transmits video images directly to the visual cortex, bypassing the eye and optic nerve.
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15/Jul/2019 |
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Himachal Pradesh government urged to implement HC order to provide free education to disabled’ |
Himachal Pradesh government has been urged to implement the High Court order to provide free education and accessible libraries in educational institutions to visually impaired and other disabled... |
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15/Jul/2019 |
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RBI to come up with mobile app to identify currency for visually impaired |
The Reserve Bank of India will come out with a mobile application to help visually challenged people in identifying currency notes as cash still remains a dominant mode of transaction. At present,... |
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15/Jul/2019 |
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Cricket tourney for visually impaired held at Bhaderwah |
A 3-day cricket tournament for the visually impaired persons will be held from 13 July 2019. Cricket Association for Blind J&K will organise the tournament in collaboration with District... |
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12/Jul/2019 |
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Budget 2019: What it means for the social sector |
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget for 2019-20 has elements of potentially the good, the bad, and the ugly for the voluntary sector in India. Let’s look at all three in reverse order.
The... |
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12/Jul/2019 |
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Delhi samaritan provides shelter to 68 visually impaired girls |
Around 68 visually-challenged girls view Dashraj Gyawali as a father-figure because he has let them stay at his Burari home for free till they complete their studies.
In 1998, a visually challenged... |
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10/Jul/2019 |
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Soft Braille promises to bring images alive for blind and low vision people |
A group of students and faculty members at a Bengaluru college have developed a software called Soft Braille to help visually impaired people get better access to images and maps in Braille.... |
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09/Jul/2019 |
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Indian-American Led NGO Launches Mobile App To Locate Accessible Friendly Buildings In India |
An Indian-American led non-profit organisation has launched a public utility mobile app to locate and identify disabled-friendly buildings in India.
The NGO, Voice of Specially Abled People (VOSAP),... |
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09/Jul/2019 |
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