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School for the blind shows the way: Topper Kavita secures 90 per cent - |
Appearing for CBSE Class XII exams, students of the Institute for the Blind in Sector 26 passed with flying colours. Kavita Rani bagged the first position with 90 per cent marks. For Kavita, a... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
23/May/2016 |
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Loss of sight but no lack of vision |
CHENNAI: WHEN on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, C Margaret, an English teacher at Little Flowers Convent School for Blind and Deaf, remarked “Literature is not about books but of life’s experiences,” her... |
General, Education and Employment |
23/May/2016 |
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Indian oil centre for rural eye health opens in capital LVPEI |
BHUBANESWAR: LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on Thursday opened an Indian Oil Centre for Rural Eye Health here with an aim to provide solutions to visual impairment in rural areas of the State.... |
General |
20/May/2016 |
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Visually-impaired Ulhasnagar girl cracks IAS in maiden attempt |
Where there's a will, there's a way and 26-year-old Pranjal Patil, a visually-impaired Ulhasnagar resident, has proved it right by clearing the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams and... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
19/May/2016 |
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Skill development workshop for visually challenged teachers begins |
A five-day skills development workshop in computer literacy and yoga for 35 visually challenged teachers with the aim of helping them adapt to a more inclusive pedagogy got under way in the city on... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
19/May/2016 |
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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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