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SOON, DISABILITY CERTIFICATES TO BE VALID ACROSS INDIA |
Soon, there could be a good news for the people with disabilities (PwDs). As per the draft of Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014, disability certificates issued by State authorities will... |
Achievements, General, Policy News, Medical, Education and Employment |
18/May/2016 |
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Blindness did not block Gokulapriya’s vision to achieve |
Resolute support of friends in class, the management and teachers was what propelled vision-impaired Gokulapriya of Kumutha Matriculation Higher Secondary School to stand tall among visually... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
18/May/2016 |
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Parsee helps the blind read a newspaper with these smart glasses |
A Polish non-profit organisation is hoping to help the blind and visually impaired with plans to make and give away what it says will be the world’s first free smart glasses.
Parsee has developed a... |
General, Product and Technology, Education and Employment |
16/May/2016 |
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In this story, mother’s grit lights up her kids’ darkness |
Paramjit Kaur, 50, was left shocked when she discovered that both her children were born visually impaired. Accepting her fate and determined to not let her children’s impairment come in their way,... |
Achievements, General |
13/May/2016 |
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Enabling the visually challenged to live their football dreams |
Their vision may be impaired, but their dreams need not be.
As visually challenged footballers imagine their own Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo acts, support is in the offing to light up those... |
Accessibility, Achievements, General, Adventure and Sports |
11/May/2016 |
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Visually impaired Chennaiite explains how he cracked the UPSC code |
CHENNAI: Beno Zephine broke the glass ceiling last year when she fought against all odds and became the first ever Indian Foreign Service officer with 100 per cent visual impairment. Now, following... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
11/May/2016 |
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A helping hand for the visually-challenged |
Students of Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science (MITS), Madanapalle, have designed a system called ‘Blind Vision’ that helps the visually-challenged to tread easily even in crowded spaces... |
Accessibility, General, Product and Technology |
06/May/2016 |
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Centre planning online recruitment for government jobs |
NEW DELHI: Let's face it, few people look forward to interacting with government officials even if they want to join the ranks of the sarkari workforce themselves.An online recruitment plan in the... |
Achievements, General, Policy News |
05/May/2016 |
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App for Visually Challenged |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF), the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of Amway India, has launched a mobile application - Accessible Reader - for the benefit of the visually... |
General, Education and Employment |
04/May/2016 |
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Providing audio books for the blind |
A visually impaired English teacher has embarked on a project of converting books into audio files for benefit of the blind. Sandeep Trivedi, no stranger to the challenges faced by the blind, said he... |
General, Education and Employment |
03/May/2016 |
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