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Dreams and aspirations |
An amazing group of visually impaired youngsters catch your attention at the Pan-I.I.T. meet, at Bandra Kurla Complex in suburban Mumbai. They are handling tele-networking for Pan-I.I.T. meet and are... |
General |
23/Jul/2012 |
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A scheme for visually impaired teachers from I.G.N.O.U. |
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (I.G.N.O.U.) has approved a scheme of financial assistance to visually impaired teachers of the university. <br><br>All the teachers and... |
Education and Employment |
23/Jul/2012 |
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Art made easy for blind |
When Nagamani, Mahadevi, Kavitha, Sushma, Rachana, class 10th students at C.S.I. Victoria Girls' School drew pictures using crayons at a workshop held recently, people assembled were surprised and... |
Education and Employment |
23/Jul/2012 |
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Car rally for blind |
The UCAL annual car rally, where drivers are given authorised blind navigators who read maps in Braille, was held recently. Visually impaired navigators are certified by the National Association for... |
Adventure and Sports |
23/Jul/2012 |
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The new non-accessible two rupee coin |
The new stainless steel coin can be easily mistaken for a one-rupee coin, as it is round in shape and does not have sharper edges like the old two rupee coin. The new coin has the number '2' boldly... |
General |
23/Jul/2012 |
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A unique photo show that goes beyond sight |
In a first-of-its-kind programme, ‘Blind With Camera’, nine visually impaired persons learnt the art of photography. They captured sounds, voices, smells and touches through the camera.
The... |
General |
23/Jul/2012 |
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Information Communication Technology centre |
Aimed at identifying and solving the basic issues being faced by visually impaired people while using computers, a model Information Communication Technology (I.C.T.) centre will be set up in... |
Education and Employment |
23/Jul/2012 |
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A cycling challenge with a cause |
The first ever tandem bicycling event in the U.A.E. was held on 16 February 2007. The cycling challenge was organised to raise money for research into retina degeneration and hereditary eye diseases... |
Adventure and Sports |
23/Jul/2012 |
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Bionic implants |
The Argus II system uses a spectacle-mounted camera to feed visual information to electrodes in the eye. "What we are trying to do is take real-time images from a camera and convert them... |
Medical |
23/Jul/2012 |
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Karate for visually impaired boys |
Bharatiya Welfare Association for the Blind’ (Gulbarga, Karnataka) is offering karate training to visually impaired boys to equip them with self-defence skills.
The training programme was inaugurated... |
Adventure and Sports |
23/Jul/2012 |
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