Walking around is one of the toughest things for a visually challenged person. Even when they're using a cane. To help them get past this, young innovator Krishna Sai Inkoolu, from Anakapalli in Visakhapatnam invented 'Taparch Footwear', which helps them walk sans the stick. This 24-year-old who studied Industrial Engineering at Gitam University designed a mechanism with an embedded electronic circuit that senses the existence of obstacles in the path and communicates it to the visually challenged person with a 'tap', while they're walking — helping them stay safe.

HYDERABAD, NOV. 5:  

It was a shoot with a difference. A group of visually challenged students had a day with the Camera at the University of Hyderabad.

The objective help the students try to translate mental images into reality while taking pictures. Well known author Partho Bhowmick (author of See As No Other & In Touch) was the resource person.

HUBLI: A visually impaired association in Karnataka’s Hubli district, while lauding the demonetization initiative, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to print the new currency notes in the Braille script.
 
The Chickennakoppa Andhara Kalyana Samithi, a local blind organisaion, expressed this views to the media here.
 

Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has passed a stricture against the Haryana Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities for acting beyond the powers vested in him, pretending to be a court and hijacking the functioning of the government department.

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With Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing the withdrawal of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in circulation from the midnight of November 8 2016, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is introducing other currency notes of higher denomination.