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Kerala’s Vaikom Vijayalakshmi becomes the first to play Gayatri Veena for 5 hours, sets a new world record!
The only one who can stop YOU from succeeding is YOU! You don’t need to be perfect to achieve your dreams – all you need is the passion to make it happen. This is what Kerala’s singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi has proved. There is probably no Malayali who has not heard of playback singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi. This visually-impaired singer brings alive the beauty of music to her listeners. She sings a range of Malayalam songs from old to classical. She had no formal training in music but learned different ragas by singing and listening to the audio tapes of Kerala’s iconic singer KJ Yesudas.
Orthopaedic surgeon heads blind school in Patna
JD(U) MLA raises the issue in Assembly; State government assures to take immediate corrective steps
The blind school in Patna is headed by an orthopaedic and not by an ophthalmologist, revealed a ruling party Janata Dal(United) MLA on Wednesday in the State Assembly.
The embarrassed State government promptly assured the House that immediate corrective steps would be taken on the issue.
Beauty pageant for visually blind celebrated on Women’s Day
Dream walk: Disability does not deter the visually-challenged participants at Princess India 2016-17 beauty pageant in Andheri on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Fariha Farooqui
A trailblazer for women, disabled
Visually impaired teacher, who once sold candy at the railway station, is now a motivational speaker
A year ago, K. Suguna and her husband, Elumalai, sold candy at the Tambaram Railway Station. The couple, both visually impaired, made about ₹ 150 - ₹200 a day. They saved the bulk of it for the education of their two children — Vijay and Supriya. Today, Suguna is not only a school teacher, but also a motivational speaker.
MANUU STUDENT WINS NATIONAL BLIND AND DEAF CHAMPIONSHIP IN JUDO
Hyderabad: Mr. Hassan Ali Bawazeer of ITI, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, has won the 5th National Blind and Deaf Judo Championships Award.
According to Prof. Mushtaq Ahmed I. Patel, Dean, Students Welfare, Bawazeer has participated under 55 kgs weight category in the Junior Blind Judo Championships – 2017 held at Scottish High International School, Gurgaon, Haryana recently, and secured first position in competition.
SSLC exam begins today
About 38,017 students, including 19,107 girls, from 436 schools would take the SSLC public examinations in the district from Wednesday.
Flying squads with 275 teachers have been formed to check malpractices. About 108 students with disabilities would also appear for the examination. Fifty-seven visually impaired students have been allotted scribes. Forty-three students with disabilities have been allotted one hour extra time to complete the exam.
No Braille for deaf-blind student in Maharashtra state board exams
SCIENCE, TECH CAN IMPROVE LIVES OF SPECIALLY-ABLED
The National Science Day is being celebrated every year on February 28 all over India to commemorate the invention of the Raman Effect by the Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman on the same day in the year 1928.
For his great success in the field of science, Sir Raman was awarded and honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1930. Besides, the National Science Day offers an opportunity to widely spread a message about the significance of scientific application in the daily life of people.
HC stays move to shut blind school
The Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed the State government’s move to close down a residential school for the blind and stop the supply of basic amenities to the school hostel.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice G. Rohini was hearing a petition filed by the National Federation of Blind which had challenged the move of the government. The petitioner, advocate Santosh Rungta, said the Department of Education had compelled parents to withdraw their wards from Andh Mahavidhyalaya on Panchkuian Road and admit them in other blind schools which were running to capacity.
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