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'We See,' a Child Eye Health Project, Aims to Reduce Visual Impairment in South Africa by 90 Percent |
Project will address population resources and needs for child eye health services through collaboration between business, government and social sectors.
A young girl in Soweto, South Africa, sits in... |
Achievements, General |
11/Apr/2014 |
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Blind girls counselled on abuse prevention |
Sexual abuse of children with disabilities is a serious issue world over. Girl children with disabilities are at risk of sexual abuse in the same ways as other children. However, they are at... |
General |
09/Apr/2014 |
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Special arrangement for differently-abled voters at polling booths |
Special arrangements have been made by Delhi Election Commission to provide better accessibility to the differently-abled voters at polling booths across the city, when the national capital goes... |
General |
09/Apr/2014 |
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Govt declares holiday on April 10 |
Employees of government and private establishments, daily wage workers and contract workers will get a paid holiday on April 10, due to the Lok Sabha elections being held in the city, the Delhi... |
General |
08/Apr/2014 |
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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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