Diabetes is a fairly common disease that interferes with the body’s ability to use and store sugar. It can occur during childhood but usually the problem begins later in life. Diabetes is a multi-system disease which affects the eyes and kidneys commonly.  Diabetes can cause many health problems, especially when it is severe and uncontrollable.

KOCHI: As part of World Sight Day, Giridhar Eye Institute, Kadavanthra will conduct a one month long awareness and screening programme, Windows’15 to draw to the causes of avoidable blindness and vision impairment and means of eradicating them. 

It was an exhilarating moment for the over 300 odd students, professionals – all visually impaired – who heard and understood each and every moment on an onscreen movie for the first time at the Mehr Chand Polytechnic College, Jalandhar. It was also the first time an audio film was screened in Punjab.

JAMMU: A visually-challenged man has cracked the National Eligibility Test (NET) and is set to become an Assistant Professor in music.

Rahul Kumar, an inmate of the residential school for blind at Roop Nagar, has qualified the NET in music. Kumar has been a recipient of 'President's Gold Medal' in BA and MA music.     

Aggrieved over “lack of action” by Delhi government on issues affecting people with disability, hundreds of disabled people plan to march towards the secretariat on October 6 to seek a meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and put forward their demands. Muralidharan, convenor of the Delhi Viklang Adhikar Manch shared the plans for the march, which will be held under the leadership of 16 organisations, at a press conference Wednesday. 

By July 2016, the Government plans to make 75 railway stations and all 21 international airports across India disabled-friendly, as part of its ‘Accessible India’ campaign.