An artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic tool developed by Google and researchers in India, for detecting diabetic retinopathy (DR), is showing clinical promise in the Indian setting, according to Rajiv Raman, a senior consultant at Chennai’s Sankara Nethralaya, one of the country’s leading eye hospitals.
Telangana will embark on an ambitious project to achieve "avoidable blindness-free status" by conducting comprehensive eye screening for its 3.5 crore population.
The Telangana government embarked on a noble project of achieving "avoidable blindness-free" status by conducting comprehensive and universal eye screening for the entire population of the state under the title "Telangana Kanti Velugu," a Government Order (GO) issued today said.
LAHORE:
Justice Shujaat Ali Khan of the Lahore High Court issued a notice to the Punjab government on a petition seeking an order to grant jobs to visually-impaired people who are protesting on the road for their rights.
Judicial Activism Panel, the petitioning NGO, filed the plea through its counsel. It was stated that every state deals with special people by taking the utmost care, but the situation is different in Pakistan. He added the visually-impaired are running from pillar to post for their basic rights.
LAHORE:
Swati*, a 15-year-old visually challenged girl, runs her fingers over the shuffled dots of a Braille book, attempting to understand a sequence of dots. Every time she touches it, she tries to relate it with pictures or events she has heard about. "I was never taught Braille. I have been tutored only through audio lessons," said Swati, who touched a Braille book for the first time.
Coimbatore: Scoring centum in Social Science, S Sabari Venkat, a 15-year-old visually-impaired student, has secured over 96% in the Class X examination.
CHENNAI: Kathirvel Vijayabalan, a topper from the Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind in Poonamallee, always wanted to become a district Collector.
Tiruvannamalai: About 70 kilometres from Tiruvannamalai district headquarters is Sengulam village, which has frequently made headlines for all the wrong reasons as many youths from this place had been booked on charges of red sanders smuggling. However, this time two visually impaired siblings have done the village proud by being the first graduates from there.
AJMER: Sunday saw a unique event for visually impaired individuals to showcase their poetry skills in Ajmer.
Shikha Dubey, a visually impaired girl from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh presented a poem on ‘Shinghar Ras’ (beauty essence) about the beauty of flowers that drew loud claps from the audience.
The program was organized by the literary society of India along with Paras Charitable trust in which visually impaired poets got a chance to showcase their wide range of imaginations in the form of poetry.
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