Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday ordered a special state-wide recruitment drive to clear the backlog of vacancies for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the state government’s various departments.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Special school organisations decided to intensify their protest against the LDF government’s apathy towards the demands of the schools. Over 1,200 people belonging to special schools in Thiruvananthapuram district held a dharna in front of the Secretariat on Thursday which was inaugurated by former KPCC president V. M. Sudheeran.
NEW DELHI: The absence of essential tools and software in need of updates are just two of the issues faced by visually challenged students in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
A British company plans to launch a Braille e-reader for blind people this year, which would greatly enhance their reading experience and spare them from lugging around hefty print volumes.
Bristol Braille Technology hopes to launch Canute 360, their new ‘Kindle for the blind’, which displays nine lines of text at a time, or about a third of a page of regular print.
Our Guest Columnist, Sagar Baheti talks about his experience of completing the Deccan Cliffhanger Challenge.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
This inspiring line from the former first lady of the United States certainly comes to mind every time I think of the ‘Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation (ABBF)’.
Chandigarh, January 14
Athletes from Institute of Visually Impaired, Sector 26, won a rich haul of medals in the recently concluded 21st IBSA National Athletics Championship, organised by Indian Blind Sports Association of India, in New Delhi.
The Bombay high court (HC) on Monday directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to examine currencies of “advanced countries” like the US Dollar, British Pound and Euro to develop features that would make notes user-friendly for those who are visually-impaired and blind. The RBI has been asked to submit its report to the court in two weeks.
Tirupur: I Poovarasan of Perumalmalai near Kangeyam, a class XI student of the Padiyur Government Higher Secondary School is packing his bags for a 10-day foreign tour.
KATHMANDU (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) – The floor of the National Braille Library for the Blind is filled with books. Big, thick volumes of books in Braille are littered all over while steel racks are carelessly stacked with more.
“These all are donated books. Different international organisations donate books to us almost every alternate month,” said librarian Ambika Shrestha.
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