SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Amy Rogers watched her eldest son, Preston, glide by on his skateboard on a recent afternoon, she marveled at how far he had traveled just over the past few months.

The Institute of Social Work and Research (ISWAR) and Odisha Disabled People’s Network (ODPN) and the Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhijan on Wednesday decried the State Government’s negligence in implementing the policy of a three-per cent reservation for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Government departments despite the Supreme Court’s verdict.

Navbharat Jagriti Kendra has started Glaucoma clinic in its eye hospital situated at Bahera Village of Chauparan block. Now the patients suffering from Glaucoma or Kala Motiya will be treated in this clinic established at Loknayak Jai Prakash Eye Hospital with support of Aditya Birla Financial Services.

Until English athlete Roger Bannister ran a mile under a minute in 1954, it was thought impossible for humans to run that fast. Within a year, another athlete broke the barrier. Today, most international runners can run a mile a minute, proving that “impossibility” was only in the mind.

BENGALURU: A  Bengaluru inventor has developed a device that enables the visually impaired to use the length and width of currency notes to distinguish their value.