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‘Keep seats for differently-abled children vacant’ |
HC pulls up government for its lackadaisical attitude in directing schools about the quota
Disturbed at the lack of efforts by the Delhi Government in directing schools to keep three per cent... |
Education and Employment |
21/Mar/2014 |
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Quashing of job advertisement; HC asks Centre, Delhi government to reply |
The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre and the city government to respond to a PIL seeking quashing of an advertisement for jobs on the ground that seats have not been reserved for persons... |
Achievements, Discrimination, Education and Employment |
19/Mar/2014 |
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Indian eye care majors to combat blindness in Commonwealth |
Two Indian eye care majors – the Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, and the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad – are among eleven expert institutions chosen from across the world to combat... |
Achievements, General, Medical |
12/Mar/2014 |
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An uphill struggle for securing rights of the disabled |
Being a member of the erstwhile drafting committee for the Rights of People with Disabilities Bill 2012, I can testify to its stand that ‘it cannot be made perfect as every process involves breaking... |
Discrimination, General |
11/Mar/2014 |
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Indian wearable device Fin gets huge pre-orders |
A wearable device developed by a 23-year-old Indian based in Kerala has just concluded an overwhelmingly successful campaign on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Fin, a tiny hardware product that you... |
Science & technology, Product and Technology |
11/Mar/2014 |
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Special booths for PWDs |
Booths in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Berhampur LS constituencies identified
With simultaneous assembly and general elections creating huge optimism in all sections of the society, office of Chief... |
Achievements, General, Policy News |
10/Mar/2014 |
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A new dawn |
They have battled adversity and emerged triumphant. K. Jeshi meets three physically challenged women who have learnt to smile again
Visitors at the State Bank of India Singanallur branch are... |
Achievements, General |
10/Mar/2014 |
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THT 10 YEARS AGO: Visually impaired mark 94th Women's Day |
The women of the Nepal Blind Association (NBA) today organised a felicitation programme cum poetry symposium where most of the participants were differently abled people. Purna Devi Kansakar, the... |
General |
10/Mar/2014 |
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Visually impaired Alpine skier lends his guide to teammate leading to Sochi Paralympics bronze medal |
While Ozzie Sawicki, the chef de mission of the Canadian Paralympic team, may have appeared calm on the outside, when I approached him just moments before our rookie alpine skier Mac Marcoux was... |
Achievements, Adventure and Sports |
10/Mar/2014 |
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Woman can achieve anything |
It was in 1955 that my first article on “And Man Can Achieve Anything” appeared in Free Press Bulletin with M.V. Kamath as the Editor. Today, when the world has just celebrated the International... |
Achievements, General |
10/Mar/2014 |
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