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Visually challenged seek implementation of job quota |
Despite the government having promised visually challenged graduates employment opportunities through reservation, most blind people haven’t been able to land those jobs, said representatives of the... |
Policy News |
23/Jul/2013 |
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Whiteprint: Lifestyle magazine for visually impaired |
India is home to 12 million visually impaired people of which 56 lakh are literate. The number of newspapers and magazines published out of Mumbai were only about 60 till May this year until former... |
General |
23/Jul/2013 |
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Devendra Jhajharia wins India's first-ever gold in World Paralympic Championships |
Para-athlete Devendra Jhajharia has created history by becoming the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships as he bagged the yellow metal in javelin... |
Adventure and Sports |
23/Jul/2013 |
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Amidst all odds, she conquered |
A partially visually-challenged girl has topped the Ph.D. entrance of the English and Foreign Languages University.
The topper Jyothi Priya had done her MA Literature five-year integrated course from... |
Education and Employment |
23/Jul/2013 |
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Aid for the Visually Impaired under FYUP |
Delhi University has faced a lot of flak for the 'relentless' implementation of the four-year undergraduate programdespite severe opposition. The University, however, is doing its part to make... |
Education and Employment |
22/Jul/2013 |
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Not blinded by handicap, man gets PhD from IIT |
K Sriram is an example of what people with visual disabilities can achieve in life, if they have the necessary support. The commerce graduate from Loyola College who completed his MBA at IIM-... |
Education and Employment |
22/Jul/2013 |
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Seeing beyond the white cane |
West Australian researchers are developing a new gadget for blind people they hope will be the greatest innovation in the field since the white cane.
Once developed, the gadget would allow visually-... |
Product and Technology |
21/Jul/2013 |
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Israel's UpSense Allows The Visually Impaired To Use Touchscreens |
Touch is a technology already well into its stride. Super LCD, Full HD Super AMOLED, Retina Display, Youm (can’t wait for these) – with every consecutive generation of phone/tablet device, the... |
Product and Technology |
21/Jul/2013 |
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Blind student, 20, in Hong Kong learns to read Braille with her lips — fingertips weren't sensitive enough |
Tsang Tsz-Kwan’s teachers at the Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired first noticed her trouble reading with her fingers when she was just 4 years old.
A blind student from Hong Kong... |
Education and Employment |
21/Jul/2013 |
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She lights up blind parents' dreams |
AHMEDABAD: Birwa Hadial was ecstatic when she passed the CA final exams on Tuesday. Her parents Damji and Krishna, however, were over the moon. The blind couple cannot see, but they had always seen... |
General |
18/Jul/2013 |
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