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Chew on This: Tobacco in Your Mouth Can Make You Blind |
CHENNAI: If you need another reason for not consuming tobacco in any form, here is one: a study by a reputed eye hospital in Chennai has found that chewing tobacco regularly could cause partial... |
General |
07/Mar/2016 |
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Sports Meet Held for the Disabled on Ground That’s Not Barrier-free |
On Saturday, over 500 people with disability once again proved that they are no different from able-bodied sportsmen at the 15th State-level Annual Sports for Disabled organised by Tamil Nadu... |
Accessibility, General, Adventure and Sports |
07/Mar/2016 |
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Career fair for people with disability on Saturday |
Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, a Ballari-based non-profit organisation, will organise a job fair for physically challenged people at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, University of Agricultural Sciences... |
Achievements, General |
02/Mar/2016 |
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‘Give me a minute to board, please’ |
Her dependency on a walking cane does not stop 45-year-old Prerna (name changed) from commuting nearly 18 km to her workplace every day. The one-way journey from Sadarahalli to Malleswaram takes this... |
Discrimination, General, Policy News |
02/Mar/2016 |
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PM’s divyang for disabled confusing budget-makers: activists |
Last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi said persons with disabilities would be referred to asdivyang , he probably hadn’t expected the confusion it would throw budget-planners into, or the... |
General |
29/Feb/2016 |
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Book of the Week |
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A novel by a visually-impaired IAS officer is not something we get to read often. In I: Putting the Eye in IAS, Rajesh Singh writes about the... |
General, Education and Employment |
29/Feb/2016 |
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Adugodi Traffic Cops Now Armed With Sign Language |
BENGALURU: The Adugodi traffic police have just undergone training to communicate with the visually- and the hearing-impaired.
A workshop conducted by Giftabled, a city-based NGO, gave them tips on... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
29/Feb/2016 |
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Railway Budget 2016: 6 tech related announcements you must know |
Union Railway Minister, Suresh Prabhu presented the Rail Budget for 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. While no hike in rail fares has already brought a smile to many faces, the Minister also made... |
General |
26/Feb/2016 |
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Divyang’ tag disappoints persons with disability |
Persons with disability feel the Railway budget has let them down, as it has not shown any vision to ensure a barrier-free environment.
Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu’s budget speech had only one... |
General |
26/Feb/2016 |
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‘Aashayein’ to motivate the challenged ones |
The zeal to give back something to society has made a group of young students from Hubballi to come up with an event to motivate the physically and mentally challenged children.
What started as a... |
Accessibility, General, Product and Technology, Education and Employment |
25/Feb/2016 |
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