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Visually impaired J-K girl secures 95% in CBSE Class 10 board exam

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 10:10 -- geeta.nair

Visually impaired J-K girl secures 95% in CBSE Class 10 board exam
Srinagar, Apr 15 (PTI) A visually impaired student in Srinagar has scripted an inspiring story by securing 95 per cent marks in the Class 10 board examination conducted by the Central Board of School Education, the results of which were declared on Wednesday.
Zainab Bilal, who aspires to study computer applications, scored 475 out of 500, with a perfect 100 per cent in computer science.

News-This Uber ride between a blind passenger and deaf driver is winning the internet: Here’s why

Thu, 04/09/2026 - 10:28 -- geeta.nair
On most days, booking a cab is muscle memory. Tap, confirm, wait. For Aishwarya TV Pillai, a startup founder living with vision loss, one recent ride began the same way, and then quickly turned into something unexpected.
Her driver that day was deaf.
For a moment, she hesitated. “For a second, I thought of cancelling,” she wrote in a LinkedIn post. “Not out of doubt, just curiosity doing somersaults.”

Then she didn’t.
 

2 ‘Children of the State’ from Shimla school selected for scholarships

Wed, 04/08/2026 - 10:11 -- geeta.nair

In a remarkable achievement, two ‘Children of the State’, Amrit Verma and Mokshit Sharma, both studying at Government Senior Secondary School, Tutikandi in Shimla, have been selected for two different scholarships.

Verma has been selected for the INSPIRE Award, a scheme run by the Department of Science and Technology to promote creativity and scientific thinking among school students. Mokshit Sharma has been selected under the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS). He will receive the scholarship until he completes his Class XII.

Nagpur’s Ishwari becomes first blind swimmer to cross Palk Strait

Tue, 04/07/2026 - 10:01 -- geeta.nair

Seventeen-year-old visually impaired swimmer Ishwari Pande from Nagpur created history on Monday by becoming the world’s first completely blind swimmer to cross the Palk Strait from Sri Lanka to India.She began her record attempt at 4 am from Urmalai Point near Talaimannar in Sri Lanka and completed the journey at 3:15 pm, reaching Arichalmunai in Dhanushkodi. Ishwari covered the challenging stretch in 11 hours and 15 minutes.

Consultancy: Disability Inclusion Associate Advisors

Tue, 03/24/2026 - 11:06 -- geeta.nair

The British Council will contract Disability Associate Advisors (AAs) to work alongside our Cultural Engagement Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team and programme teams to provide specialist input into our work, to help deliver the British Council’s objectives. 

We work towards disability inclusion through projects that address disability-related issues and promote the empowerment of disabled people, as well as through mainstreaming disability inclusion across all our programmes.

Visually impaired student gets doctorate at central varsity

Thu, 03/19/2026 - 10:39 -- geeta.nair

Visually impaired student gets doctorate at central varsity
Clears the National Eligibility Test (NET) as well as the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) examination
As the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, awarded the PhD degree to Bhadur Lal during the 12th convocation ceremony of the Central University of Haryana (CUH) in Mahendragarh, the old adage, “Where there is a will, there is a way,” was underlined once again.

A wallet with ‘eyes’: help for the visually challenged with currencies

Tue, 03/17/2026 - 11:53 -- geeta.nair

National Association for the Blind — Tamil Nadu has launched an initiative to distribute Vision Wallets to visually impaired individuals with an event organised at its office in Chennai on March 13. The assistive device spells out the denomination of a currency note

A wallet with ‘eyes’: help for the visually challenged with currencies

Tue, 03/17/2026 - 11:36 -- geeta.nair

National Association for the Blind — Tamil Nadu has launched an initiative to distribute Vision Wallets to visually impaired individuals with an event organised at its office in Chennai on March 13. The assistive device spells out the denomination of a currency note

News- J&K: Visually impaired JNU passout, labourer’s son crack UPSC civil services exam

Mon, 03/09/2026 - 12:31 -- geeta.nair

Jammu and Kashmir celebrated a moment of pride as a visually impaired JNU graduate, a labourer’s son, and a serving JKAS officer cracked the prestigious UPSC Civil Services Examination-2025, showcasing determination and inspiring many.

Having lost an eye in an accident at school during his early childhood, Irfan Ahmad Lone never let the impairment come in his way.

Lone, a resident of Manzpora in the Naidkhai area of the north Kashmir district, secured all India rank (AIR) of 957, bringing pride and celebrations to the frontier district.

BCCI announces structured support for Cricket Association for the Blind in India

Thu, 02/26/2026 - 11:08 -- geeta.nair

Recognising the visually impaired cricketers’ achievements and the challenges faced by them, BCCI has committed to extending support to both the men’s and women’s National Teams.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced a support framework for the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).

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