Only 233 candidates have applied for about 8,000 available seats

At the ongoing counselling at Anna University, response from persons with disability has been poor. This year, following an order issued by the government, the university authorities had increased the number of seats reserved for candidates with disability to 5% of the total allotted seats.

Chennai: E Ukanthaai, 35, sells sweets and pens on suburban trains on the Chennai Beach route every day. Forty-six- year-old Kasthoori, a mother of two, sells needles, nail cutters and stationery items on trains departing the city. Both women are visually impaired, having lost their vision in childhood.

This is an Android  based  app for navigating indoor spaces. This is currently a research project at Microsoft and interested people can try out this app and provide their feedback to Microsoft. This navigation approach does not use beacons, so it is not limited by physical infrastructure deployment.
 
For more details please refer to the following link.
 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/path-guide-new-approach-indoor-navigation/

New York, July 13

Tech giant Microsoft has released an iPhone app, including in India, that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help the blind and visually impaired see world around them like never before.

The free ‘Seeing AI’ app can read out short snippets of text, describe people, identify products and currency denominations, and take a stab at identifying the objects in a person’s surroundings.

COIMBATORE: Even as the State government has ordered a vigilance probe on the recent recruitment done by the Bharathiar  University, a visually challenged Assistant Professor at the Social Work department of the University, resigned saying it should have been reserved for a hearing impaired. He added he did not want to continue in a post that belongs to someone else.

After much delay, the Delhi Development Authority launched its housing scheme on Friday. There are 13,000 flats on offer which will be allotted through a draw of lots.

Kanchanmala Pande, a completely blind para-athlete swimmer from Nagpur, along with five other athletes, was to participate in the Para-Swimming Championships at Berlin from July 3rd to 9th. But she was left in utter misery after the sponsorship money from Sports Authority of India was not released by Paralympic Committee of India (PCI).

With no money for hotel and food expenses, Kanchanmala resorted to begging on the streets of the German capital.

It’s an age-old saying that when you don’t have one of your senses, the others are exponentially heightened. One such example of this adage would be the amazing kids from Delhi-based Yoga Artist Group — a group of visually impaired students who perform acrobatic yoga under the training of Hemant Sharma, a social activist and a yoga teacher.