LUCKNOW: Acknowledging the request of a visually challenged student to change names of two city locations that he said were derogatory towards the disabled, mayor Sanyukta Bhatia announced on Tuesday that she would take measures to do so. The new names would reflect famous personalities who ontributed to society, she said.
KOCHI: For a long time, the Indian Blind Football Federation (IBFF) has been on a mission to create a sustainable environment for the growth of blind football in India. Fighting odds, it organised national-level tournaments and exposure trips for the blind national team, only to be pulled back by the lack of support from the All India Football Federation (AIFF). But, not anymore. With an intensive three-day coaching session by national goalkeeping coach Rogerio Ramos, AIFF began its engagement with the blind football fraternity in India.
NuEyes, a pioneer in the field of low-vision technology, and Pico Interactive, maker of innovative VR solutions, announced the launch of an all-in-one virtual reality device that can re-open the wearer’s eyes to a world they believed forever lost due to failing sight.
LAKHIMPUR: Manak Devi Nahata, a socially active woman of North Lakhimpur town, breathed her last on Tuesday at 8.55 am. She was 71. She was the wife of Gajaraj Nahta, the proprietor of Ratan Automobiles of the town.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on a plea seeking to lay down standards for design of banknotes and coins and make all forms of physical currency and digital means of transactions accessible to the visually impaired.
A Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V.K. Rao sought response of the Centre and the central bank on the plea filed by an organisation working for empowerment of visually impaired persons.
The small amounts collected from the Indian footballers as fines for minor breach of discipline are being put to use for a noble cause as the team decided to donate Rs 50,000 to the Indian Blind Football Federation.
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The National A for Blind 2019 has begun in Nagpur from the 5th of January 2019. It is going to be an exciting event as top four players from this 14-player round robin event, qualify for the World Championship in Italy from 5th to 15th og April 2019. The favourite is definitely five-time National Champion Kishan Gangolli, but he will be receiving stiff resistance from youngsters Aryan Joshi. Marimuthu, Soundarya Pradhan and others. Regular readers of ChessBase India will remember that the 2018 edition of the National A for blind happened because of the crowdfunding done on ChessBase India.
CHANDIGARH: Having waited for chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Health minister Anil Vij to act as Santa Claus for them, visually impaired men are now expecting a New Year gift from the government even as they are staging an agitation in Sector 5, Panchkula, to press for their demands of adequate employment opportunities and other facilities to be extended to them like other categories of various disabilities.
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