Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, October 10

Differently abled students in the district have alleged harassment by various school administrations who are not allowing them to appear for their compartment exams. While a Class X student on Tuesday was disallowed from taking his writer inside the exam centre, differently abled activists expressed concerns that the same might be repeated with other students, some of whom are visually impaired who won’t be able to write their exams.

In a unique initiative to battle breast cancer in India, blind women are being trained in Delhi to be able to detect early signs of breast cancer. The National Association for Blind (NAB) Centre for Blind Women and Disability Studies, in collaboration with Discovering Hands, Germany has launched the initiative ‘Discovering Hands’ in India.

Chandigarh, October 7

“My younger brother drops me at our village bus stop every morning before he pushes off to get ready for his school. A bus is supposed to come at 7 am. However, it does not come many a time and I end up requesting commuters to give me a lift. It’s a long wait before someone agrees to drop me at the school where I teach,” rued Iqbal Singh, a visually impaired music teacher at Jamalpur (Ludhiana).

Hyderabad: To facilitate citizens, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to set up 84 mock polling centres to ensure complete awareness on the use of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

LUCKNOW: Visually impaired since birth, 14-year-old Kavita  has visited the zoo a few times. However, her Sunday's visit  was unlike any other till now. For the first time, no one  had to tell her what she was looking at.