The vast campus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) will welcome a fresh batch of 400 Postgraduate Programme (PGP) students on Thursday. However, a few students have arrived early to attend the voluntary preparatory classes.
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 4
Visually impaired students of the Institute for Blind in Sector 26 continued the streak of passing with flying colors. All the 12 students of the institute who had appeared in Class X exams passed with good grades. The institute’s topper scored CGPA 9.8.
Proving the mettle, Ritik Goyal topped among the students who appeared for Class X exams.
A visit to Institute for the Blind in Sector 26 turns an eye-opener, a humbling lesson on human capacity
Artist Chintamani Hasabnis has been painting since 1990. However, the last four years have been special to him as he started creating art that enabled the visually impaired to see. To do this, the 52-year-old artist made art that focussed on texture to produce a 3D-style effect, which could be touched and felt. “Art like theatre, cinema and painting is very visual. Conversing with art has its own benefits,” said Hasabnis, “It is a universal medium and should be open to all.”
Scientists have developed a new, ground-breaking software that allows hearing- and visually-impaired people to enjoy television content in real time without any intermediaries.
The software, PervasiveSUB, compiles all the subtitles of television channels and sends them to a central server which forwards them to smartphones or tablets.
The National Book Trust has started publishing books in Braille and digital formats for blind readers, NBI chairman Baldev Bhai Sharma said.
“We have published more than 100 e-books and four books in Braille as the new copyright rules have made it easier,” Mr Sharma said.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nbt-publishing-books-in-braille-digital-formats/article18462418.ece
BENGALURU: Among the 932 partcipants at Bengaluru 2017 Walk, an annual walkathon held in January, was Sowmya K Bhaskar, a human resource manager from Bengaluru who recently moved to Hyderabad. Being 90 per cent blind, Sowmya has crossed out walkathon from her bucket list as she completed a 50 km trail from Nandi Hills in 17 hours along with three of her colleagues.
Sowmya K Bhaskar along with her
team at the walkathon
A one- day consultation as part of Voluntary National Review on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) was held here by international development organisation Sightsavers. The consultation was attended by more than 50 representatives of disability networks and groups working across the State. This year the progress on SDGs was reviewed. It addressed the concerns and voices of the persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the implementation of these global commitments and timeline.
NEW DELHI: Taking a big step towards making the campus disabled-friendly , Miranda House has become the first DU college to put up "digital vision signages" on its premises to help its 70 visually challenged students find their way across the college.
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