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More to go blind – Ghana Health Service Report |
About 300,000 Ghanaians are at risk of going blind, the Director of Institutional Care Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, has disclosed.
According to him, already... |
General |
19/Sep/2018 |
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48 yrs on, visually impaired ex-serviceman gets pension |
Chandigarh, September 14
For almost half a century, a visually impaired ex-serviceman ran from pillar to post in dire straits as he had to do without pension that had been rejected by the Defence... |
General |
18/Sep/2018 |
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We want people to look up to us with pride, not sympathy, says CABI secy |
People look up to us in sympathy, but we want them to look up to us with pride, says secretary of Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) and cricket player Sonu Golkar.
For the first time... |
General, Adventure and Sports |
18/Sep/2018 |
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UK’s first all-blind orchestra set to perform in Mumbai |
A powerful song about inner vision, or antardrishti, composed by a blind musician, will be among the pieces performed on Monday by an orchestra made up entirely of visually challenged artistes.
The... |
General |
18/Sep/2018 |
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I WANT TO MAKE A MOBILE APP ACCESSIBLE TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED! REALLY? |
A common myth about web accessibility is that it “Only helps visually impaired”. It’s one we hear again and again. We only want to test with screen readers.
This approach of building accessibility... |
Product and Technology |
14/Sep/2018 |
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Alternative route in Majerhat spells existential dilemma for blind school. |
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/alternative-route-in-majerhat-spells-existential-dilemma-for-blind-school/articleshow/65791244.cms |
General |
13/Sep/2018 |
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Visually impaired 20-year-old Hyderabad man wants to become a lawyer |
Twenty-year-old Eshwar Rao Javvadi from Hyderabad is just a few months away from graduating as a lawyer from Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) in Ahmedabad.
But there is something special about... |
General, Education and Employment |
13/Sep/2018 |
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Make Smart City blueprint disabled-friendly: Centre |
For the first time since the launch of the Smart City Mission four years ago, the Centre has stressed on making a blueprint on how a smart city should look like from a differently-abled person’s... |
General |
12/Sep/2018 |
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Increase in corneal donation and transplant at Delhi AIIMS |
The National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB) estimates that there are around 1,20,000 corneal blind persons in the country and about 20,000 to 30,000 cases get added every year.
At 1,844... |
General, Medical |
12/Sep/2018 |
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Vijayalakshmi who has carved a niche for herself in the Malayalam film industry has also sung in Tamil and Telugu films |
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, the visually impaired singer from Kerala loved much for her unique voice recognisable among scores of new singers, is getting married next month. In a phone call, her dad... |
General |
11/Sep/2018 |
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