To draw attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of his visit to the State, members of the All Odisha Student Union of the Visually-Impaired discussed various issues and placed various demands at a Press conference here Wednesday.
अशक्त लोगों को गणतंत्र दिवस के मौके पर चंडीगढ़ प्रशासन ने बड़ा तोहफा दिया है। उनकी पेंशन में इजाफा कर दिया गया है। यूटी सचिवालय में चंडीगढ़ समाज कल्याण विभाग की स्टेट एक्जिक्यूटिव कमेटी डिसएबिलटिस की बैठक हुई।
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Prashant Kumar Mani, a cheerful trainer for the visually challenged, never gives any hint that he was once shut out of the world for the ill-fate that had fallen upon him. Bad luck in the form of a bike accident introduced Prashant, then a bank manager, to the world of the visually challenged.
Rebati (name changed), a 13-year-old physically-challenged girl, studies in Class-VII in a Government school in the State. She has a dream to finish her higher education if she is provided with all necessary facilities, which a disable person needs.
Calicut University has made a remarkable contribution towards the cause of the visually challenged by setting up a garden exclusively for them.
When he was being rushed to the hospital after sustaining serious injury in a road mishap, he requested his family members to donate his eyes to a visually impaired person after his death.
BENGALURU: Thirty-five new mothers and their babies participated in the annual Pinkathon run in Bengaluru on Sunday morning.
Among the 10,000 women who ran various distances in the run to raise breast cancer awareness were students, housewives, corporate executives, cancer survivors, and women from underprivileged and visually impaired sections.
India's first accessible restaurant finder and menu reading app is here. It aims to make eating out more dignified, sociable and enjoyable for everyone including persons with visual impairments, weak eyesight and dyslexia. Anyone who has trouble reading the restaurant menu will cherish Good Food Talks.
Using the accessibility features on the phone or tablet, one can control the font size, change the colours, or have the menus spoken out loud.
If anyone has taken sincerely Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call of Skill India, then it has to be this former army man.
On Saturday, Rama Krishna will visit Qutb Minar. It is a significant event for him — the 38-year-old will be visiting a historical monument for the first time.
CHENNAI: T o give visually-challenged youth awareness on getting study grants and orient themselves for work life after college, Tamil Nadu Association of the Blind is conducting a three-day path to development seminar for visually challenged youth at Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, starting on Republic Day.
Ludhiana: Thirty-six-year old visually challenged Sandeep Singh and his 43-year-old friend Gurpreet Singh Chahal, who is also visually challenged, have become an inspiration for others as they have started web radio 'Sach dee Goonj' with a vision to bring the visually challenged artists and achievers at par with others. They have their listeners not only in India, but also across the world.
Other than the wire running from the chess board, it looked just like the ones used in a normal chess tournament. The board and the pieces were mounted on a wooden box under which was a lining of electromagnets and sensors, said Bhavya Gohil, the co-founder of Infivention.
KOCHI: The victory of the Indian Blind Cricket team, the third consecutive victory by the blue shirts including the World T20 2012 and the Blind Cricket World Cup 2014, has given more weight for the demand for recognition by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
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