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People with Disabilities Still Left Behind In Transportation Debates |
560,000 People with Disabilities Never Leave Their Homes Due to Transportation Difficulties. As conferees begin debating how to move forward with the federal transportation reauthorization, two civil... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Liverpool to wear blindness charity kit for Chelsea clash |
Liverpool will don one-off new-look shirts when they face Chelsea at Anfield this evening to raise awareness for a blindness charity.
The usual Standard Chartered logo on the front of the red... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Parliament passes RTE Bill |
Parliament passed the Right of Children to Free and compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2012, with the Lok Sabha passing the measure on Wednesday, thereby providing for an integrated education... |
Education and Employment |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Cassettes for Blind People service scrapped by Hertfordshire County Council |
A free service providing visually-impaired Hertfordshire residents with talking books by post has been scrapped and will be replaced with subscriptions to a charity library.
The Cassettes for Blind... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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A leveller called luxury |
At Mumbai's domestic airport, a reflexology parlour - which offers 30-minute foot massages for Rs 950 - employs visually-impaired masseurs from lower-income backgrounds. They make their way around... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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TN CM announces resource centre for differently-abled children |
In an effort to help differently-abled children, Tamil Nadu Government has decided to set up a State Resource Centre here, the first of its kind in the country.
Making a suo motu statement in the... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Enable the Differently-abled |
The government needs to be more pro-active and look into the various issues to allow differently-abled children better education, says Swapna Mukherjee
All may seem well in the education scenario... |
Education and Employment |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Travelling woes of the differently abled |
Though the Ministry of Railways has taken a number of measures to make public transport facilities accessible to differently abled persons, the associations for differently abled persons say that... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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You have to be strong, young to be able to get into the metro or a bus |
Each time she hears someone complain about the traffic and the reluctance of people to use public transport, journalist Nikita D. has just one question: “Why should people, especially women, be... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Archaeological Survey of India breaks barrier to make monuments disabled-friendly |
Monuments like Aga Khan palace, Shaniwarwada, and Raigad fort will be among the first to have ramps, wheelchairs and information boards in Braille. They will become barrier-free allowing the disabled... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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