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Colleges haven’t done enough |
Online junior college admission forms give students 30 options, but for Akansha Jadhav, 16, there are only four colleges to choose from. A visually impaired student of New English School, Bandra,... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Computer hub for disabled |
Gauhati University will set up a special centre to train hearing and visually impaired students of the state in computer skills.
The university has signed an MoU with the National Thermal Power... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Lingaraju, Visually Impaired but with a Vision for Dance |
He started learning classical dance when he was only 7. Now at 22, Lingaraju, the only male artiste in Samarthanam's Sunadha dance troupe, is an accomplished dancer.
He has performed in Australia,... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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MP govt makes braille text books for students |
Madhya Pradesh government has made available braille text books of primary level to all the districts for visually impaired students of the state, officials said today. All the district project... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Special: Shining some light for the blind |
India’s print media is among the largest in the world. More than 25 per cent of the world’s blind population is in India.
Yet, India’s 12 million visually impaired people do not have a daily... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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No special teachers for Delhi’s differently-abled children |
It has been two years since a high court order, but the Delhi government is yet to recruit permanent teachers for differently-abled children in its schools. On September 15, 2009, the court had... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Experimental device attached to tongue helps totally blind man read |
They were three small words, but their meaning was huge.
Sitting in a lab at the University of Pittsburgh last week to help test the BrainPort vision device, Jose Neto read out the words projected... |
Product and Technology |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Sign bond to fly, blind exec told |
A high-flying city executive, who has travelled across the world and helped frame disabled-friendly guidelines for Indian airports, hit an air pocket at Patna last week when a private airline... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Scholarship for visually challenged girl students |
UDIS Forum has invited applications from visually challenged girl students for the Marga Schulze Scholarship.
A release from the organisation said it was a merit-based scholarship aimed at... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Nehru's letters now in Braille |
In 1928, Jawaharlal Nehru decided to open Indira's eyes to the world. He wrote to his 10 year-old daughter from Allahabad and filled his letters with what amounted to history lessons. The batch of 30... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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