Rio de Janeiro: Jason Smyth was crowned the world's fastest para-athlete after he won a 100m race involving sprinters from all disability classes.

A FORMER hotel for the blind and partially sighted people in Llandudno is still on course to open before the end of the year. 

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has issued an order to transfer teachers with specialisation in hearing impairment from the Government Blind School (GBS), Vazhuthacaud. While the order says that it is a grave child rights violation to allow teachers without proper specialisation to teach children with visual impairment, it is mum about the fate of the three teachers who have been serving the school since 2009.

The blind spot of the human eye can be shrunk with certain eye-training exercises, thus improving a person’s vision slightly, a new study has found.

It was during her stay in Udaipur while doing her internship in 2011 when Sadhvi Thukral realised how, adhering to age-old traditions, many families still prohibited women from entering the kitchen while they were menstruating. Appalled by the myths and social taboos attached to the subject, she decided to take up a project on the same – but targeted at the visually impaired.