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No more oversight |
A chance encounter with a visually-impaired girl prompted this restaurant owner to launch a Braille menu in her restaurant
Bhavna Jain recalls the exact moment when she had a brainwave that would... |
Achievements |
07/Oct/2013 |
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Writer failed me in Zilla Parishad exam: Visually impaired girl to HC |
A visually challenged girl has knocked at the doors of the Bombay high court alleging that she was not provided with a proper writer for the written examination to fill up vacant posts in the Zilla... |
Discrimination, Education and Employment |
07/Oct/2013 |
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Visually-impaired can’t see coins ! |
With the visually impaired in the state having a hard time distinguishing the recently issued Re 1, Re 2, Re 5 and 50 paise coins, the Kerala chapter of Daisy Forum of India, an NGO involved in... |
Discrimination |
07/Oct/2013 |
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Smartphones help the visually impaired navigate their daily lives |
Modern smartphones, such as the iPhone and Android devices, have made it easy for the visually impaired to interact with the world and have made their daily lives easier and more independent. Early... |
Product and Technology |
01/Oct/2013 |
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LVPEI, Microsoft launch mobility, sensory stimulation park in Vijayawada |
‘Experience to improve mental abilities of visually-challenged’
The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) and Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC) on Friday jointly launched a new initiative to... |
Science & technology |
30/Sep/2013 |
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A question of vision, not sight |
A new television series is trying to change society’s attitude towards the visually impaired.
"My family members don’t realise what I am doing on my own without their help. They only see what I don’t... |
Achievements |
30/Sep/2013 |
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‘90% of visually impaired live in developing countries’ |
The Eastern Mediterranean region is home to the second largest number of people in the world with visual impairment, according to estimates.
There are a total of 285mn visually impaired people in the... |
General |
24/Sep/2013 |
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Visually impaired student impresses experts at Oxford |
While doing her PhD at UoP, she represents city and is one of the three participants from India at the global conference.
Early this month, Kalyanlakshmi Chitta (29), a visually impaired... |
Education and Employment |
24/Sep/2013 |
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Visually impaired teachers support protest in Chennai |
Members of the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts Blind Teachers Association and Tamil Nadu Self-Confident Blind Services Society (TNSCBSS) staged a demonstration in front of the collectorate here... |
Education and Employment |
24/Sep/2013 |
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Sightless but not without vision, they inspire with their cameras |
A photography exhibition questioning the conventional wisdom of 'vision' is currently on at the India International Centre featuring works by three international lensmen, all of whom, once sighted,... |
General |
23/Sep/2013 |
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