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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 |
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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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Awards given on Ugadi day |
Manmathanama Ugadi was ushered in with a difference here on Saturday. The members of the Maanaviya Kalyan Trust celebrated the day by distributing sweets and fruits to the residents of a destitute... |
General |
23/Mar/2015 |
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First seat on bus for blind, disabled |
NEW DELHI: The first seat on DTC buses will now be reserved for disabled or blind passengers. On Wednesday, transport minister Gopal Rai chaired a public hearing at the regional transport office in... |
Achievements, General, Policy News |
19/Mar/2015 |
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New Vision for Visually Impaired Students |
CHENNAI: Visually impaired students were given an opportunity to showcase their talent at New Vision, an inter-collegiate fest for the visually challenged, organised by PG students and the Department... |
General, Education and Employment |
19/Mar/2015 |
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Visually impaired student from Vellore for All India Judo tournament |
Twenty-one-year-old V. Dinesh, a visually impaired student studying B.Ed. (Tamil) in the Government College of Education, Vellore, has been selected for the All India Judo Tournament for the Blind,... |
Achievements, General, Adventure and Sports |
19/Mar/2015 |
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The same cane, but smarter now |
White cane, the mobility aid used by the visually challenged, has got a smart makeover, thanks to the research conducted by IIT, Delhi. The ‘smart white cane’, as it is called, incorporates a small... |
General, Product and Technology |
17/Mar/2015 |
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Restaurant was insensitive to disability rights activist: report |
A South Delhi restaurant, which allegedly denied entry to a disability rights activist on Holi (March 6), was found to have been “insensitive” towards him as per a magisterial inquiry ordered by the... |
General |
16/Mar/2015 |
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DISABLED AS PWDS COMMISSIONER DEMANDED |
Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network coordinator Sanyas Behera has reiterated that the State Government must appoint a disabled person as the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). “The... |
Policy News, Education and Employment |
16/Mar/2015 |
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Zimbabwe for the visually impaired students |
In Zimbabwe digital tools will help learning of the visually impaired students: thanks to a project of University of Zimbabwe Library in cooperation with European non-for-profit organization EIFL (... |
Product and Technology, Education and Employment |
13/Mar/2015 |
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