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Visually impaired guide drivers during Nagpur car rally |
In one-of-its-kind initiative, a car rally for visually impaired people was organised in Nagpur, Maharashtra, over the weekend.
During the rally, participants used a route map in Braille to guide... |
Adventure and Sports |
04/Feb/2014 |
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In the equation: how to improve access for blind science students |
Studying science can be difficult at the best of times, but if you're blind, it can be even harder. Software to magnify text helps. But a German university has a better solution.
Magnifying... |
Education and Employment |
03/Feb/2014 |
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Lighthouse to debunk low-vision myths |
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind hopes to shine a light on misconceptions during Low Vision Awareness Month in February.
Individuals with low vision have partial sight that cannot be... |
General |
03/Feb/2014 |
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16-year-old Mumbai student builds air hockey game for the visually impaired |
Hemani Kalucha won the Indian Robot Olympiad 2012 for her project ‘AR-Jen’ - The Robot Arjun. In the Mahabharata, Arjuna's story relates a great accomplishment in archery which, before Arjun, was... |
Achievements, Product and Technology, Adventure and Sports |
30/Jan/2014 |
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Visually impaired hold dharna seeking review of persons with |
Scores of visually-impaired people held a demonstration in the city today demanding a reconsideration of the proposed bill on the rights of persons with disabilities before it is introduced in... |
Policy News |
30/Jan/2014 |
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Experimental contact lens aims to offer tactile sight for the blind |
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Israel's Bar Ilan University have developed a prototype contact lens that could enable the visually impaired to see the world in a whole new light.... |
Achievements, Science & technology, Product and Technology |
30/Jan/2014 |
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RTE has failed to enable the disabled: Study |
The 2012-13 study on children with disabilities had revealed that while 99 per cent of these children liked attending regular schools but 57 per cent of teachers were not trained to understand... |
Discrimination, Policy News, Education and Employment |
27/Jan/2014 |
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Him Prasad develops new software for visually impaired |
Semi-visually impaired Him Prasad Gautam has developed a fourth version of Dristibachak software for visually challenged people.
At a programme organised in the Lake City today by Inclusive... |
Achievements, Science & technology |
27/Jan/2014 |
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100 visually imparied to drive cars in rally on Feb 2 |
In an attempt to raise fund for the Institute for the Blind in Sector 26, Chandigarh, NGO Round Table India will organise a unique car rally-'Blind Man Rally' (BMR) - on February 2 from 9am onwards... |
General, Adventure and Sports |
27/Jan/2014 |
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Tactile tricolour for visually impaired |
Shortly before India celebrates Republic Day, a group of citizens launched an "accessible" version of the national flag for visually handicapped. It is designed in three different textures, one for... |
General |
27/Jan/2014 |
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