BENGALURU: It was no easy journey for Sheikh Tanveer Asif to success in UPSC exams. Overcoming numerous odds, this candidate from Kalaburagi secured the 25th rank.
It was his second attempt at the exam. Asif said as he was preparing for both state civil service and IAS exams, he was unable to dedicate his time fully to the national level exams.
At the 17th convocation of the International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) held on Sunday, 269 candidates were part of the graduating batch.
Indian scientists have developed a smartphone app that helps colour blind and visually impaired students detect color changes in a routine lab experiment, thereby ensuring their active participation and independence.
The app, Titration ColorCam, is a step forward in the ongoing effort to develop assisstive mobile technology to aid blind students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), said Subhajit Bandyopadhyay and Balraj B. Rathod of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata.
These include electronic books and talking or audio books.
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“It is time to celebrate with a Chocó cone!” Both Mother and son sit at the dining table around 10 in the night and thank God for the end of May and the beginning of June as they count their blessings reminiscing about how the past month has gone by peacefully with a few hiccups. The breeze is pleasant ,with a touch of pre monsoon showers bringing in fresh reasons to celebrate the beginning of yet another academic year.
“It is time to celebrate with a Chocó cone!” Both Mother and son sit at the dining table around 10 in the night and thank God for the end of May and the beginning of June as they count their blessings reminiscing about how the past month has gone by peacefully with a few hiccups. The breeze is pleasant ,with a touch of pre monsoon showers bringing in fresh reasons to celebrate the beginning of yet another academic year.
The Center for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi is engaging in an action research project titled ‘Violence against Women and Girls with Physical Disabilities in India: Understanding the Issues and Promoting Legal Empowerment’. Professor Renu Addlakha is the project director of this
two year research-cum-advocacy project being funded by the South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF). The project has a two-fold agenda:
Story from Uganda: Blindness does not stop this beekeeper, baker, and kayaker from expanding their vision.
In rural Uganda, people who are blind or visually impaired often go to the city to look for work. But jobs are hard to find, and many end up as street beggars.
Instead, Ojok Simon wants them to know about a way they can earn money without leaving home: beekeeping. Simon, 36, became visually impaired after he was severely beaten by rebels who came to his village when he was a child.
Nagpur: Sonali Nandkumar, 38, who is partially blind, lost some courage when less marks in banking exams meant she would not get a job there. "They told me that exams would be re-conducted once the new government takes over, but I failed to clear those too," says the BA graduate.
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is planning to complete the distribution of supportive aids to 14,500 differently-abled schoolchildren in the district by August.
A.K. Abdul Hakkeem, district programme officer, SSA, said here on Sunday that hearing-impaired and visually-impaired children were given special attention this time. “They were broadly categorised into four groups – fully deaf and partially blind; partially deaf and fully blind; fully blind; and fully deaf,” he added.
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