Prime Minister Narendra Modi will confer national award to Hoshangabad Collector Sanket Bhondve for excellent works for rehabilitation and upliftment of disabled persons. The award will be conferred in New Delhi on December 3.
The visually impaired girls who have been selected for a singing competition to be organised by Doordarshan titled 'Meri Aawaz Suno' on Monday called on Chief Minister Raman Singh at his residence here.
They can’t define light but that is not a deterrent for them to adding dazzle to others’ lives every Diwali.
Bhubaneswar: Laxmi Barik is a 15-year-old visually impaired girl. But that has not deterred her from playing cricket. She, along with 43 other visually challenged girls, are busy practising ahead of the first ever blind women's cricket tournament of the state to begin here from Friday.
For the first time, more than 50 visually challenged students studying in SSLC and above were given talking laptops in Mysuru. The laptops have in-built audio keyboards that are incorporated with special software to make them user-friendly.
NEW DELHI: Films to sensitise society about handicapped persons would be screened in the first-ever international film festival for persons with disability next month. To be held from December 1-3, the festival would show 40 films on different categories of disabilities including 10 feature films, 16 short films and 14 documentaries in different languages.
PUDUCHERRY: Calling upon the general public to comply with the directions of the Supreme Court, on the use of crackers, the Puducherry Pollution Control Committee (PPCC), on Monday, appealed for a noiseless and smokeless Deepavali celebration.
The panel cautioned the public against bursting crackers between 10 pm and 6 am on the day of Deepavali.
CHENNAI: When Ashok Kumar scored 1,076 in his Class 12 board exams and topped his school, it was not just his parents and teachers who felt elated but he also made another person proud, someone who had been toiling away with him in the examination centre, equally anxious to finish the test papers. It was his 63-year-old scribe T R Narayanan.
After attending reading sessions for a year, a visually-impaired student of Government High School in Poonamalle scored 960 in his class 12 board examination.
Expenses incurred for getting eyes treated cannot be claimed as a professional deduction under the Income Tax (IT) law, the Bombay high court has said.
A lawyer had undergone eye treatment in the US about 20 years ago and asked IT authorities to treat it as a professional deduction. Disagreeing with him, the court gave reference of a few of its lawyers, saying though they were visually impaired they could carry out their work efficiently.
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