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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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‘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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