Gaps in infrastructure and lack of awareness are among the primary reasons why the Directorate of Education (DoE) has failed to draw applicants to seats reserved for differently abled children in the city’s private schools.
Christmas is my absolute, hands down favorite time of year.
Has been ever since I was a little girl. I would wait for Santa and hope he heard my Christmas wish. Then, growing up Christmas traditions continued and my love for this holiday deepened further. And now as a 44-year-old, I’m a proud, but pitiful knock-off for Mrs. Clause.
Ferozepur, December 24, 2018: Visually-impaired persons from Punjab, Haryana, Jammu, Chandigarh, Zirakpur and Delhi, on Sunday, gathered at Home for the Blind in Ferozepur for Christmas celebrations – to cherish peace and goodwill to be plenteous in mercy and to re-dedicate our own lives.
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, December 20
Members of the Netraheen Kalyan Manch here today continued their hunger strike in protest against the state government for failing to fulfil their long-pending demands.
Spokesman of the Manch, Ravish Kumar, said the government had filled 136 posts against the total of 182 vacancies in the group D category for visually-impaired employees. The government had failed to fill the backlog of reserved posts since 1995, he added.
BHOPAL: Krishnakant Mane was 12 when he first laid his hands on a computer. Since then, there is no stopping for this 39-year-old visually-challenged software developer.
MECON CMD, Atul Bhatt today inaugurated the IndusInd Bank Nagesh National Cricket Tournament for Blind 2018 – 2019 in the presence of Director (Technical), MECON P K Sarangi. Bhatt opened the occasion with a welcome greeting to all the players from Tripura, Tamil Nadu , Gujarat and Jharkhand, the organisers from Cricket Association for the Blind, National referee and International Delegate from Holland.
A 15-year-old visually-challenged girl got a man, who molested her on a Mumbai local train, arrested. But, this was no plain arrest. The child, trained in self-defence and karate, caught her molester’s hand, and twisted it till he was forced down to his knees in pain.
For 50 visually-impaired government school students aged between 14 and 16 years in Chhattisgarh, it marked the beginning of new hopes and a freedom from Braille. With the help of latest mobile technology, these excited children were trained to study their textbooks, helping them overcome their physical challenge in a way they did not think was possible before this. Each of them got a phone which had preloaded accessible textbooks, and they were taught to study these textbooks using latest mobile applications.
BENGALURU: To encourage sportsmanship among the visually-challenged players, IDL foundation in association with the Karnataka Blind Sports Association (KBSA) will host ‘Floodlight Blind Cricket’ in the city. The fifth season of Blind Cricket League T-10 is named “Ambi Cup -2018’, in the memory of Ambareesh.
A total of 28 teams will participate in BCL season 5, which includes two women teams, 2twomasters teams, 16 district teams and 12 teams from various schools in the state.
Emirates NBD has announced the introduction of 'Traveller HD', an assistive technology designed to improve the branch experience for visually impaired customers.
Emirates NBD branches in Dubai Festival City, Hamriya and Al Qusais in Dubai will be the first to offer the high definition reader.
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