Eye'm innocent! Blind man targeted in benefit fraud probe for being 'too good' at darts |
Visually-impaired Robert Boon, 50, says he was was stunned to discover a member of the public had reported him after organising a 10-hour charity darts event.
A blind man who held a charity... |
Achievements, Adventure and Sports |
03/Apr/2015 |
TIME TO END POLITICAL REHABILITATION FOR PWDS CHIEF POST |
The Odisha Government seems to have no concern towards betterment of around 13 lakh disabled people in the State as it is reportedly mulling to fill up the vacant post of the Commissioner for Persons... |
General, Policy News |
02/Apr/2015 |
Education Secretary tenders apology in court |
The School Education Secretary, D.Sabitha, on Wednesday appeared before the Madras High Court and tendered an unqualified apology in a matter relating to the filling of lecturer vacancies by the... |
General, Judgments, Policy News |
02/Apr/2015 |
CM distributes free laptops to visually impaired students |
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday distributed free laptop computers to visually impaired students at a function organised in his home office Krishna in Bengaluru. This move by the government... |
General, Product and Technology, Education and Employment |
02/Apr/2015 |
Braille book on disaster management released |
A Braille book on disaster management to educate visually challenged students on protecting themselves during natural calamity was released here on Monday.
Collector M. Karunakaran released the book... |
General, Product and Technology, Education and Employment |
31/Mar/2015 |
Turning vision into a reality |
We seldom spare a thought for the simplest of things that could be within our reach but remain out of our mind.
For instance, how many of us knew that the annual cost of educating a visually... |
General, Product and Technology |
30/Mar/2015 |
‘Lechal’ shoe to guide visually impaired to destination |
KANPUR: To help visually impaired in navigating the ways, special footwears named 'Lechal' (Lechal meaning take me along in Hindi) was the centre of attraction at the Techkriti-2015, the annual... |
General, Product and Technology |
27/Mar/2015 |
HC summons School Education Secretary |
Strongly condemning “an improper and insensitive” affidavit filed by the then School Education Secretary in connection with the filling up of Lecturer vacancies by the visually challenged, the Madras... |
General, Policy News |
25/Mar/2015 |
An app to help blind type quickly on iPad |
This new app can help the visually challenged type quickly and efficiently on an iPad. Created by Stanford engineer Sohan Dharmaraja, the app named IBrailler Notes uses eight keys. What’s different... |
General, Product and Technology |
25/Mar/2015 |
Visually impaired 34-yr-old has flown a plane, is now a Young Global Leader |
Ashish Goyal was never one to be in the doldrums, except once when he accidentally bumped into a female teacher in 2001, his final graduation year. Furious, the teacher insulted him in a crowd of... |
Achievements, General, Education and Employment |
23/Mar/2015 |
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