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Physically challenged girl rape case: Haryana Police's laxity revealed |
It is not just the politicians who are insensitive to gender issues but a DSP in Haryana too has been caught on a hidden camera displaying complete callousness in dealing with the gangrape of a... |
Discrimination, General |
14/Apr/2014 |
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Visually impaired voters get familiarised with EVMs in Thanjavur |
Those who do not know Braille can take an assistant along with them
Electronic Voting Machines were demonstrated to blind persons at the Government School for the Blind near the bridge here on... |
General |
14/Apr/2014 |
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Easter Egg Hunt Uses Beeping Eggs for Blind and Visually Impaired Children |
Axton, VA-- It's about the time of the year again when kids are going on Easter egg hunts.
But there's a group of children that usually don't get to do that, kids that are blind or visually... |
General |
14/Apr/2014 |
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Virtual Cane Helps Blind People Move Around with Voice Prompts |
Last year we saw a robot cane for visually impaired people that warns its user of obstacles with an audible alert. The Virtual Aid for the Visually Impaired or VAVI by grade 10 student Roman Kozak... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
14/Apr/2014 |
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Helping the visually impaired with sensor tech |
An IIT Delhi lab has developed an innovative high-tech cane that allows blind persons to easily guide themselves through their environment. It uses modern sensor technology to detect obstacles and... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
14/Apr/2014 |
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India’s Blind Cricket Team Captain Wants to be a Coach |
On Sunday morning, Shekar Naik, India’s blind cricket team captain, whose vision extends only to 6 metres, will play his last official tournament.
After a set of two friendly 20-over matches... |
Adventure and Sports |
13/Apr/2014 |
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App Helps the Blind "See" With Their Ears |
A woman who has been blind since birth sits at a table with a bowl of mostly green apples in front of her. When asked to find the single red one, she plucks it from the bowl without hesitation and... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
11/Apr/2014 |
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NJIT to host TechQuest and Innovation Day |
Students will present their research, business concepts for inventions
The New Jersey Institute of Technology will host its second-annual TechQuest and Innovation Day this Friday, April 11,... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
11/Apr/2014 |
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Ideas to make schools more inclusive |
It doesn’t have to be difficult to make our places of study an easier place for the differently-abled
Social and political recognition of differently-abled people is the need of the hour. If... |
Education and Employment |
11/Apr/2014 |
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T-20 Blind World Cup champs India take on Australia on 13th-14th April in Bengaluru |
The essential characteristic of the world of the Blind or visually impaired is darkness in varied degrees. How well do we, the sighted, comprehend this world? What is it like to dance, sing, laugh,... |
Adventure and Sports |
11/Apr/2014 |
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