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An app to help blind type quickly on iPad

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 10:50 -- geeta.nair

This new app can help the visually challenged type quickly and efficiently on an iPad. Created by Stanford engineer Sohan Dharmaraja, the app named IBrailler Notes uses eight keys. What’s different about it is that the keys form around the fingertips when they’re placed on the screen. Which means that if a user loses his way, he simply lifts his fingers from the screen and places them down again.

Visually impaired 34-yr-old has flown a plane, is now a Young Global Leader

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 10:53 -- geeta.nair

Ashish Goyal was never one to be in the doldrums, except once when he accidentally bumped into a female teacher in 2001, his final graduation year. Furious, the teacher insulted him in a crowd of students assuming he’d walked into her intentionally. That’s when he started using a white cane—for him it was acceptance, for others a signal that he is visually impaired.

Awards given on Ugadi day

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 10:39 -- geeta.nair

Manmathanama Ugadi was ushered in with a difference here on Saturday. The members of the Maanaviya Kalyan Trust celebrated the day by distributing sweets and fruits to the residents of a destitute home, a residential school for visually impaired and hearing impaired and beggars outside places of worship.

The same cane, but smarter now

Tue, 03/17/2015 - 10:41 -- geeta.nair

White cane, the mobility aid used by the visually challenged, has got a smart makeover, thanks to the research conducted by IIT, Delhi. The ‘smart white cane’, as it is called, incorporates a small electronic device mounted on the cane. The detachable device, with an inbuilt rechargeable battery, can detect objects three metres away and provide signals to the person using it.

DISABLED AS PWDS COMMISSIONER DEMANDED

Mon, 03/16/2015 - 10:46 -- geeta.nair

Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network coordinator Sanyas Behera has reiterated that the State Government must appoint a disabled person as the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). “The Selection Committee headed by Women and Child Development Minister Usha Devi will sit tomorrow to select the new Commissioner of the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).

Zimbabwe for the visually impaired students

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 10:38 -- geeta.nair

In Zimbabwe digital tools will help learning of the visually impaired students: thanks to a project of University of Zimbabwe Library in cooperation with European non-for-profit organization EIFL  (Electronic Information for Libraries). The project was really appreciated by the users and the University community, and also it is going to be disseminated in all Zimbabwe and other African countries.

Dy. Production Engineer, Assistant Hindi Officer and Jr. Assistant (Admn)

Thu, 03/12/2015 - 16:04 -- geeta.nair
Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL)
(A Govt. of India Enterprise)
 (An ISO 9001 2008 Certified Company)
 PLOT NO. A-4, INDUSTRIAL GROWTH CENTRE,
 MANSA ROAD, BATHINDA - 151 001 PUNJAB, INDIA.
 Tel.:0164-6533050, 51 (Fax No. : 91-164-2430099)
 Website: - www.hil.gov.in

CM OFFERS BLESSINGS AT MASS MARRIAGE OF DISABLED

Thu, 03/12/2015 - 11:13 -- geeta.nair

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan blessed 51 newly wed disabled couples at a function for mass marriage of disabled persons at Hoshangabad on Wednesday. He announced that assistance under CM’s disabled persons’ marriage scheme will be increased from `25,000 to `50,000. He said that the increased amount will also be given to couples who tied nuptial knots at today’s function.

Cricket tourney for visually challenged from March 29

Tue, 03/10/2015 - 10:26 -- geeta.nair

The South Zone Cricket Tournament for the Visually Challenged will be organised here from March 29. The Twenty20 cricket tourney was being organised by the Cricket Association for the Blind in Andhra Pradesh affiliated to the World Blind Cricket (WBC) in association with the Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) and Men and the Women District Cricket Association.

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