Ajay R Raj, a visually impaired student from Thiruvananthapuram, emerged as the all-India topper in the differently abled category of the CBSE Class XII board examinations, by scoring 98 per cent marks.

HYDERABAD: With the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), for the second time in two years, issuing a circular stating that schools affiliated to it must appoint special educators as part of inclusive education, the Special Educators Forum of India (SEFI) has sent two representations to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samithi. 

BENGALURU: Over the last sixty years, our country’s use of fertilisers has increased dramatically–120 times or more over, even if we go by conservative government data. This degrades the soil and increases our carbon footprint. Unfortunately, there has been no successful attempt to come up with a solution which is simple and effective enough to be used by the farmers.

To tackle this problem, OpenCube Labs, a Bengaluru-based start-up, is working on an open-source based app exclusively for the farmers to help them gauge the right measure of pesticides and fertilizers to use.

Activists representing people with disabilities (PwD) have termed as eyewash the Government’s move to cut down tax from 18 per cent to 5 per cent on some essential devices for the sector under the new GST regime. They said the inclusive society as envisaged under the Centre’s ‘Accessible India’ Campaign is possible only if all the appliances are exempted from tax.

BENGALURU : She guides the students, steering their movements with the sound of her voice and a gentle push with her hand. They take some time to understand the dance movements. But with a lot of rigorous practice, they learn the nuances of Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form.

Dr Raksha Karthik, Bharatanatyam exponent, has been teaching this classical art form to the specially abled and to the visually impaired for the last 10 years.