Kochi: The fresh norms and guidelines of the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) to provide driving license to differently-abled citizens will come into effect from April 1, 2018. With this new circular, people having monocular vision can also apply for driving license. People with partial hearing problems and disability in legs or hands will also get driving license as per the new norms.

Karnataka women made a clean sweep, bagging all the medals, while men secured one gold.

 The Karnataka team that participated in IMF National Sports Climbing Championship

25th March 2018 marked the most memorable day in the lives of visually-impaired couple KM Kiran and Basamma B Udakari.

Kiran and Udakrai met for the first time, eight years ago when they both started working for the Samarthanam BPO run by a Bengaluru-based Samarthanam trust for the disabled. They fell in love soon after.

Despite a lack of support in their own family to take their eight-year-long relationship one step forward, the couple stood undeterred.

Nagpur: Looking at her gentle smile and sparkle in the eyes, it is hard to gauge what Bhakti Ghatol, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) student from LAD College, has gone through to achieve success.
The visually impaired student, who stood first among disabled and was overall 9th topper in BA course, won four medals, including three gold and one silver, at the 105th convocation of Nagpur University on Saturday.

A government-run university for specially abled persons will start functioning in Rajasthan soon to provide them with education and skills.

KOCHI: A seeing App that can assist the visually impaired, a tool to prevent avoidable blindness, a data cruncher that can stop school dropouts and a program to help farmers tackle the vagaries of climate change - the power of Artificial Intelligence to solve real life and large-scale problems were detailed here on Friday by a man who is in the midst of some of the most exciting innovations in technology.

Paras Jain remembers his school principal’s reaction when he told him about his decision to pursue engineering.
“He told me you are making a big mistake. Instead pursue arts,” Jain says. Now 22, Jain is happy he chose a career in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), even though the graduation period for the visually challenged student was tough with lack of access to physical infrastructure in college and zero availability of digital books to support students like Jain.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Education Minister C Ravindranath said all the campuses in the state would be fully insured from the next academic year. Replying to the demand for grants in the state Budget, Ravindranath said the government had decided to insure all the students, teachers and other staff, including cooks, for the first time in Asia.