The Purushottam Express is slated to become the first train in the country to have a Braille-embedded AC coach for the visually-challenged passengers. In a first of its kind, the Railways have manufactured an AC three-tier coach with Braille signages to be operational by the end of this month in the Delhi-Puri superfast Purshottam Express as part of its social commitment to make trains and stations more friendly towards specially-abled passengers.

Students of a school for visually impaired girls, along with their teachers, on Monday protested against the Tehsil Municipal Administration for denying them proper school premises and demanded they be provided a government building.

A 26-year-old youth, who suffered visual impairment and severe mental disability after a mini bus hit his motorcycle in 2011, has been awarded compensation of nearly Rs 40 lakh by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal.

The tribunal directed IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Company Ltd, which the offending RTV bus was insured, to pay Rs 39,89,648 to Binesh Kumar, who had filed the case through his father due to his permanent physical and neuro psychological disability.

 
 
If you were not able to see, would you seek new ways to express yourself creatively? Would you still take photographs? How might you cope in a world that caters so exclusively to people with sight? Blind photography is a field that poses all these questions — and more — by re-framing the way we think about photographs, as well as the people behind the camera.

WHO can forget the summer of 2012 and our Paralympic gold medallists, ‘Hurricane’ Hannah Cockroft, Dame Sarah Storey and local hero Richard Whitehead, who put disability sport on the map and are now household names?

With just more than a month to go until the Winter Paralympics gets under way in Sochi, I sincerely hope the public will put the controversy surrounding the games to one side and get behind our winter medal hopefuls in wheelchair curling and the brilliant but brutal ice sledge hockey.