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When the Disabled Fired the Bullet! |
CHENNAI: Tap, tap, tap!’ the sound of metal pellets being fired and tearing through paper targets was relentless. As was the sight of seated shooters putting in their entire focus to pull the trigger... |
General |
06/Apr/2016 |
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Facebook rolls out app that describes photos to blind users |
Facebook is training its computers to help blind and visually impaired people scroll through the pictures posted on the world’s largest online social network.
The feature rolling out Tuesday on... |
General, Science & technology, Product and Technology |
05/Apr/2016 |
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Visually impaired Jagadguru a messiah for others |
CHITRAKOOT: For Jagadguru Rambhadracharya of Chitrakoot, who is himself blind from the tender age of two months, serving blind and differently-abled is a style of worshipping Lord Ram. This Padma... |
General, Education and Employment |
04/Apr/2016 |
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Programme for visually impaired students held |
A two-day programme for students of Red Cross School for the Blind in Berhampur, Odisha, ended on Thursday. They were taught to use meditation and music as catalysts to eradicate inferiority complex... |
General, Education and Employment |
04/Apr/2016 |
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Bank Directed to Block 4 Posts for Visually Impaired |
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed Pandyan Grama Bank to reserve four posts for visually impaired people.
The first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice T S... |
General, Education and Employment |
04/Apr/2016 |
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How to make blind people ‘see’ films: it’s really not that hard |
The air was truly awesome at a special screening of a recently released Hindi movie at a suburban preview theatre in Mumbai. A mostly visually impaired audience sat through a show of the March 18... |
General |
31/Mar/2016 |
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Microsoft outlines intelligence vision for Windows 10 |
Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday outlined the technology giant’s vision to combine the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence as he announced new updates to... |
General, Science & technology, Education and Employment |
31/Mar/2016 |
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Disability certificate: New criteria, software glitches mar process |
At 19 years of age, Datta Baban Gawli, a vendor earning his living in local trains at Daund, suffered an accident and it led to the amputation of both his legs. Not one to give up, he got a tricycle... |
Accessibility, General, Policy News, Medical |
31/Mar/2016 |
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The new Persons with Disability Bill 2016 would be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament. |
Varanasi: Chief commissioner for persons with disabilities Kamlesh Kumar said that the new Persons with Disability Bill 2016 would be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament.Kumar also informed... |
Accessibility, Achievements, General, Policy News |
29/Mar/2016 |
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Braille Leads Teams to a Hidden Treasure |
BENGALURU: What if you are chasing a treasure by road and all the directions are written in Braille?
In a fundraiser event held in the city on Sunday, visually-impaired persons directed seasoned... |
Achievements, General, Adventure and Sports |
28/Mar/2016 |
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