CHENNAI: When Ashok Kumar scored 1,076 in his Class 12 board exams and topped his school, it was not just his parents and teachers who felt elated but he also made another person proud, someone who had been toiling away with him in the examination centre, equally anxious to finish the test papers. It was his 63-year-old scribe T R Narayanan.
After attending reading sessions for a year, a visually-impaired student of Government High School in Poonamalle scored 960 in his class 12 board examination.
Greetings from NAB India, Centre For Blind Women & Disability Studies We are glad to share that completing 13 years, our Centre's annual festival, Ujjwala, is here, showcasing performances by bright blind youth.
Expenses incurred for getting eyes treated cannot be claimed as a professional deduction under the Income Tax (IT) law, the Bombay high court has said.
A lawyer had undergone eye treatment in the US about 20 years ago and asked IT authorities to treat it as a professional deduction. Disagreeing with him, the court gave reference of a few of its lawyers, saying though they were visually impaired they could carry out their work efficiently.
KOZHIKODE: Utilising their technological and scientific skills, the students of National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC), are paving a path of self-reliance for the less affluent who cannot explore the world on their own.
The students have developed the working model of a smart ‘Blind man’s stick’ to guide the visually impaired on the obstacles along their path.
In an interview with Bharati Sud, Dr. Mukesh Garg Ophthalmology Consultant ( Centre for Sight Hospitals- Eye Care Centre) shares about childhood blindness. He talks about the various measures that can be taken during pregnancy to avoid blindness and the steps that are to be taken to detect if the foetus is blind.
CHENNAI: Over 150 people registered themselves for eye donation in Sankara Nethralaya Hospital on Monday at a function. Polycab, cables and wires manufacturers in India have taken this initiative under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity. Employees of Polycab and people from different walks of life came forward to donate their eyes on suggestion by Polycab. According to a press release, the initiative is to promote eye donation and also raise awareness among the people about this novel thing.
Those voters who are suffering from physical ailments can be given relaxation from the Queue system and should not be kept waiting, said Election Commission in a notification.
Voice Dream Reader, the popular and highly successful accessible reading tool for iOS, comes to the Android platform! Read what others have already said about the iOS version:
"This $10 app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career" - Forbes
ISLAMABAD: An e-learning accessibility centre for visually-impaired students has started functioning at the national library of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU).
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