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What university is like when your eyes don't work well |
I have been in and out of hospitals more times than I can remember, having eye tests and trying to find ways to improve my ability to see. It was not that I am blind, but rather I can't see as much... |
General |
29/May/2014 |
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CNIB helps with life skills |
Gary Sandhu lost his eyesight over night two months away from his 16th birthday in 1998.
It took about eight hours for the sudden inflammation of his optic nerves to take 100 per cent of sight from... |
General |
29/May/2014 |
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App to help visually impaired detect obstacles |
In a ray of hope for visually impaired, researchers have developed an app that uses a smart phone’s camera to detect obstacles and produces a vibration or tone to alert the user. Now, they are... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
29/May/2014 |
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Ideas that change life |
Bhimavarappu Mouli Aravind lost his eyesight at a young age but he found a way to pursue legal studies at National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata
My father is a compounder and... |
General |
26/May/2014 |
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Braille isn't 'embattled' – we're on the cusp of a golden age for blind people |
Far from heralding the death of a great medium, technology may be ushering in a new era of access and greater independence Imagine a situation where you walk into your favourite restaurant and ask... |
Accessibility, Achievements, General, Science & technology |
23/May/2014 |
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Space shrinks for differently abled in locals |
In what indicates a continued encroachment of travel space reserved for differently abled commuters on the Mumbai suburban railways, there has been a manifold increase in the number of cases of... |
Discrimination |
22/May/2014 |
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Can’t implement disabled quota in nursery this year: Govt to HC |
The Directorate of Education on Tuesday informed the Delhi High Court that the direction to reserve nursery seats in private-unaided schools for children with special needs could not be implemented... |
Policy News |
22/May/2014 |
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Disabled to have easier entry to DU |
Delhi University's decision to allow vocational subjects to be counted in the best-of-four percentages will benefit many disabled applicants. Officials at DU's Equal Opportunity Cell, which... |
General |
20/May/2014 |
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Lord of the smart ring |
How would people react when they saw someone walking on the road, talking to themselves, tapping their fingers onto thin air and making weird gestures that no one could understand? Anyone would... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
20/May/2014 |
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She's Yet to Clear a Major Hurdle |
Phrases like ‘on cloud nine’ or ‘all smiles’ would seem too far-fetched for 25-year-old Sreeja P, a visually-impaired young woman who reaped two gold and three silver medals at the recently-... |
Achievements |
20/May/2014 |
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