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Dummy Braille ballot sheets to help visually impaired |
Introduced for the first time in three districts
Dummy ballot sheets in Braille will be used at polling booths in Ganjam, Khurda, and Cuttack districts to facilitate visually-impaired voters to... |
Achievements, General |
04/Apr/2014 |
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EC Ropes in Blind Cricket Team Captain to Woo Disabled Voters |
lection Commission (EC) in Odisha, in its initiative to encourage physically handicapped people to vote in large numbers, has roped in national blind cricket team captain Md Jafar Iqbal as its 'icon... |
General |
01/Apr/2014 |
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High Court orders reservation for disabled in higher judicial service |
“Earmark one advertised post in ongoing recruitment process”
The Delhi High Court has paved the way for three per cent reservation for the disabled in the Higher Judicial Service by giving... |
Policy News |
28/Mar/2014 |
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Visually impaired UK couple marry after guide dogs 'fell in love' |
The Lechal shoe is the brainchild of two engineering students in Bangalore India and was originally designed to help visually impaired people Shoes are connected to a user’s smartphone via... |
General |
24/Mar/2014 |
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Provide visually impaired with proper technology to embrace self-service |
I refer to the commentary “Right time to step towards a self-service society” (March 18). I am visually impaired and would say that our front-line departments such as at immigration and airport... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
24/Mar/2014 |
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Visually impaired student drowns in temple pond |
A visually impaired student met a watery grave in a pond of Suvarnamukhi temple near Bannerghatta where he had gone for a bath on Wednesday.
The deceased S. Nagraj (21), a resident of Tiptur, was a... |
General |
24/Mar/2014 |
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6th VISTA games encourage visually impaired children |
SOME 200 student-athletes recently made their way to the Marikina Sports Center. While it looked just like any other sports-charged school event, this one was different—the student athletes were... |
General |
24/Mar/2014 |
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Visually impaired perceive through the light in their hearts |
Jagdish Chander (40) works at Hindu College in Delhi. He is also a car rally navigator who is reputed to never go wrong. Chander cannot see. He lost his eyesight due to optical nerve damage when he... |
General |
24/Mar/2014 |
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Visually impaired UK couple marry after guide dogs 'fell in love' |
A visually impaired British couple who got together after their guide dogs "fell in love" at a canine training camp have tied the knot.
Claire Johnson, 50, and Mark Gaffey, 51, met in... |
General |
24/Mar/2014 |
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Visually impaired call for greater accessibility to digital media |
Blind and visually impaired users called for greater efforts to increase accessibility of digital media and for more research and development efforts. At the Arab region’s first technology summit... |
General |
24/Mar/2014 |
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