2015 graft case: panchayat officer gets 5-yr RI

Mark Mulcare is totally blind. He's also a three-time world champion helmsman.

The ability to see might seem essential when steering a yacht - and Mulcare can't operate totally on his own - but the Aucklander sails largely on feel.

"I work off how the boat feels and how it seems to be going through the water," he says. "I can gauge the heel of the boat and sense what the breeze is doing."

A Health Camp was organised at State Blind, Deaf and Dumb School at Harmu in Ranchi on Sunday by Jharkhand IAS Wives Association (JIASOWA) which was also attended by Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma. In her inaugural address, Verma said that those children did not sympathy from anyone, but they need concomitance and love from the people.

A lot of us tend to feel awkward around people who are blind, not knowing what to do or say that doesn't seem inappropriate. Well, the biggest secret to engaging well with a blind person is to treat them like everybody else. If we think of a blind person as anyone who likes to go out, watch a movie, grab a meal with friends, it becomes easier to associate and interact. Here are some easy tips to help you communicate better with someone who cannot see.

Uttar Pradesh Congress staged a dharna over atrocities on blind students of Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University and the cane charge after students tried to raise their demands.

Party MLC Deepak Singh, who sat on the dharna to protest administrative excesses on blind students in Lucknow on Wednesday, alleged that the Yogi government was violating all norms to harass students and even blind students were not being spared.