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Shop is no pie in the sky for blind chef |
Blind baking is something Stanmore Bay’s Michael Erasmus, 22, does daily.
Michael is fully blind in one eye, and has 5 percent vision in the other.
But that hasn’t stopped him graduating from the... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Australia signs UN disability protocol |
People with disabilities now have another avenue to complain about being discriminated against under an agreement ratified by 40 nations.
Australia has signed up to the UN's Convention on the Rights... |
Policy News |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Sibal speech gets thumbs-up from disability rights activists |
Disability rights activists have welcomed Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal’s Lok Sabha speech, made before the landmark Right to Education Act was passed on Tuesday.
Mithu Alur,... |
Policy News |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Railways to run battery-operated cars at stations for disabled |
Extending a helping hand to disabled and elderly passengers, Railways have decided to operate battery-operated cars for them at major stations.
The small cars will operate round-the-clock to... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Delhi HC directs Centre to amend its insurance rules for disabled |
The Delhi High Court directed the Central government to reconsider its postal insurance rules and to treat the persons with disability at par with other people.
Appearing on behalf of the government... |
Policy News |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Rehabilitation University for Disabled inaugurated |
In a bid to usher in a ray of hope among physically challenged in the state, Dr Shakuntala Misra Rehabilitation University for the Disabled, the first university of its kind was on Friday inaugurated... |
Education and Employment |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Using skin-derived stem cells to treat hereditary vision defects |
After establishing a procedure to restore vision in people whose cornea has been damaged by physical or chemical injury by harvesting limbal stem cells from the healthy eye and transplanting them to... |
Medical |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Sarthak Career Centric Computer Training for Visually Impaired |
Introduction to Career Centric Computer Training:
Computer Training for the visually impaired is the greatest form of empowerment for them. It opens up the world to them: a world of information (... |
Education and Employment |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Kolkata pandal offers divine ‘touch’ to visually impaired |
Dibyendu (Debu) Adhikari is excited about his holidays. He would return home from his hostel (Kolkata Blind School) after three months for his Puja vacation. Puja for this 10-year-old is synonymous... |
General |
20/Jul/2012 |
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Fee waiver for disabled in Kendriya Vidyalayas |
Kendriya Vidyalaya students with disabilities can now avail of free education in keeping with the provisions of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full... |
Education and Employment |
20/Jul/2012 |
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