Did your hearing get better after you lost your vision?”. I can almost guarantee that someone will ask me this question when having a conversation about my vision loss. Hey, I understand…inquiring minds want to know, and I have no problem answering this commonly asked question. I will typically explain how I focus harder on my hearing now, as well as other senses, to fill in the visual blanks with information about my surroundings. Going blind did not instantly give me any blind girl superpowers. Nope. There was no magic or lightning bolt moment.

For the first time, Ballari will be hosting a State-level cricket tournament for the blind at VIMS grounds from October 5 to 7.

The tournament is being organised by Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled in association with Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), Ballari.

Graham Steel has talked with State lawmakers this year about maintaining funding for talking books and other resources for people who are blind or visually impaired. The Wyoming Council of the Blind president also met with Gov. Matt Mead to advocate and spread awareness about issues for people who are blind and have low vision in Wyoming.

Steel also invited American Council of the Blind President Kim Charlson to the organization’s annual state convention, which was held Saturday in Casper.

JAMMU, Sept 25: Shubham Tandon, 19 year old visually impaired student of Jammu, has proved that nothing is impossible and disability can’t stop anyone to succeed if the one is determined.
He has  won “Light House Vision Scholarship ” and is now representing India in a week long training ca-mp at  US  Space & Rocket  Centre.
He is the Ist visually impaired student of J&K, who got this opportunity. He is one among thirty other worldwide scholarship winners from different countries, who have been selected for this Space Camp at Huntsville (Alabama), USA.

Tribune News Service

Shimla, September 23

Muskan Thakur, a Blind girl and a budding singing talent, will be the youth icon face of the Election Commission of India for the upcoming Assembly elections in Himachal.

Muskan, a first semester student of MA (music) in Himachal Pradesh University, hailing from remote Chirgaon area in Rohru subdivision of Shimla district, has been a meritorious student throughout. She was given laptop by the government for figuring in merit in class XII examinations.