BENGALURU: In a bid to make buses accessible to differently abled passengers, KSRTC has provided foldable ramps and customised wheelchairs at major bus stations across the state. In the first phase, 21 of 77 stations across Karnataka have received ramps and wheelchairs.
CHANDIGARH: Seven years after an acid attack visually impaired her and brought life to a standstill, 30-year-old Inderjeet Kaur of Mohali has started a new innings of her life as a banker.
Trichy: A unique personality development and capacity building workshop for persons with blindness will be held here on December 29 and 30. The workshop is being organised by All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) under the sponsorship of Christoffel Blindenmission.
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.
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