Visually challenged students and teachers from across the State were imparted basic knowledge of modern assistive devices during a three-day programme held at National Institute of Technology- Tiruchi.

The 52 participants, most of them students, besides a few teachers, a librarian and a railway staff, benefited from the residential training programme on use of laptops, smartphones, various associated shortcut keys, basic android accessibility settings, talkback feature and text to speech feature.

The Union cabinet Thursday approved a proposal for setting up the Centre for Disability Sports at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, to be registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.

The setting up of the centre shall entail an estimated cost of Rs 170.99 crore over a period of five years, an official statement said.

NEW DELHI: The visually-impaired student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who  failed his semester exams, has now been given zero year by  the administration.

Manufactured thousands of miles away in South Africa, a 3D-printed yellowish-brown model of planet Venus was among the handful of tactile objects — globes, maps, grids and a dome — that were introduced for the first time at the IUCAA.

Offering a first-of-its-kind opportunity to 50 visually challenged students, the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) marked National Science Day on Thursday by, among other events, taking them on a journey across the mountains, craters and other features on the inundated surface of planet Venus.

For the first time in India, the researchers and scientists of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-D) Delhi, has developed a ‘DotBook’- the country’s first Braille Laptop for the blind students and the community.  This laptop which is exclusively created for the differently abled will be afforadable and have refreshable Braille display.