KOCHI: She had never had light before her eyes; but led by her inner light, she fought for her right to win. The Kerala High Court on Wednesday witnessed a rare fight for justice, when a 40-year-old visually challenged woman argued her own case before the court against the Kannur University decision denying her appointment to the post of lecturer in law.
Scores of visually impaired protesters held a demonstration in front of Jhang Press Club on Tuesday to demand jobs in government departments.
NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam today supported the proposal of bringing acid attack survivors under the Disability Act cover so as to provide them privileges in jobs and education.
Two visually impaired students of Saptibari High School in Aditmari upazila under the district have set laudable examples by obtaining brilliant results in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.
An inter-ministerial panel has been formed to monitor the progress being made by various Central Government departments in filling vacancies of persons with disabilities.
A two-year special course for visually impaired students will be started at Braille Bhawan, Jamalpur. This course has been started jointly by the Centre’s National Institute for Visually Handicapped, Dehradun, and the Punjab Government. Applications have been sought for this special course with duration of two years.
Casey Burkhardt, Senior Software Engineer at Google in the Accessibility team revealed today that some of these features arrived in the latest Android Wear update.
PUNE: These 23 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC, standard XII) students from Niwant Andh Mukta Vikasalaya (NAMV) have been through the most testing times in life: they have been visually impaired since birth, born in families with measly incomes and very little to sustain on.
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