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Willie Samuel McTell was probably born in 1898 (although May 5, 1901 has also been given as his year of birth) south of Thomson , Georgia , about thirty miles west of the city of Augusta.
A creative person by instinct, Yasmin Sawhney is both a painter and a poet.
Goma Rai cracked the CAT in 2010.
Karan Singhania scored 92.4% in Class 12 examinations conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (C.B.S.E.) for the academic ye
Three years after he cleared the civil services exams, a visually impaired man, Ravi Prakash Gupta, is all set to join the elite Indian Administrative Services (IAS) with the Supreme Court on Wednesday directing the Centre to grant him posting within eight weeks.
A bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph also directed the Centre to pay Rs 20,000 to Gupta who successfully argued his own case in SC.
EU-funded scientists have succeeded in awakening dormant vision cones, an achievement that may lead to saving millions of people from going blind. The dormant cones, which normally remain in the eye even after blindness has occurred, were successfully reactivated by an international team of scientists led by the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland and the Institut de la vision in France. The findings are published in the journal Science.
A visually challenged person cannot see the beauty of the Taj Mahal. But now he will be able to ‘feel’ the beauty of the monument by touching the exteriors of a scaled-down model of the Taj.
Sounds unreal, but a team from IIT-Bombay believes that the use of haptic technology — in simpler words, the science of touch — can make this a reality.
The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to clarify its stand on allowing visually challenged and other disabled students from pursuing professional and health science courses.
The court was hearing a petition filed by a 17-year-old visually challenged Ruparel College student who is seeking admission to the physiotherapy course at G S Medical College attached to KEM Hospital. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice S C Dharmadhikari has sought the information from the government by August 2.
Scientists hope the breakthrough will also slash the cornea transplant waiting list which every year falls short by more than 500 in Britain alone.
The new technique involves growing human tissue or collagen in the laboratory and then shaping it using a contact lens mould.
Damaged and scarred tissue from the front of the eye is then removed and the "biosynthetic" replacement is stitched in its place.
Eventually existing cells and nerves in the eye grow over the artificial cornea incorporating it fully into the eye.
Dining in a completely dark room, unaware what's on your plate while sitting next to a complete stranger may not sound like an ideal restaurant experience but it's certainly an intriguing way to spend a rainy night in London.
Dans le Noir?, close to London's City financial district, is staffed by blind waiters and waitresses who become your eyes according to the restaurant, whose original Paris branch opened in 2004.
Blind US soul music star Stevie Wonder struck up a singalong at a UN agency Monday as he urged countries to unlock access to copyrighted material that disabled people need for their education and livelihoods.
"What I would like to do today is launch what I call the 'Declaration of freedom for people with disabilities'," he told delegates at the opening of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) assembly in Geneva.
The Delhi State Council of Education, Research and Training has decided to allow an extra time of 20 minutes per hour to persons with disabilities who take the assistance of a writer.
The decision was taken in compliance with National Human Rights Commission recommendations.
In a statement, the NHRC said the SCERT would allot extra time to candidates in the examinations scheduled from April-May 2011 onwards.
October was the busiest month for United Nations commemorative days. There were 16 in total, including World Sight Day when representatives from large international organisations gathered in Switzerland to raise awareness about blindness.
Meanwhile, rural Bihar, which had the worst blindness problem in the world 10 years ago, is still the place on our planet with the most people unnecessarily blind. The good news is that this state now boasts one of the best success stories related to restoring sight. It involves not just a hospital but entire communities.
Scientists in Germany claim to have carried out a "miracle" eye transplant which gave sight back to a visually impaired person.
A team, led by Prof Eberhart Zrenner of technology firm Retinal Implant AG, implanted a microchip in 46-year-old Finn Miikka Terho's eye, which has enabled the totally blind man to read letters of alphabet and the time on a clock face.
The new device shows that the damaged light receptor cells in eye can simply be replaced by a microchip; the rest of the image is obtained by the natural eye, British newspaper the 'Daily Express' reported.
Breaking records is almost a way of life for 30-year-old Mumbai boy Ashish Goyal. He was the first blind student to make it to Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, four years ago. If that isn't enough, Ashish cleared his MBA with honours and went on to win the Joseph P Wharton award, given to one student every year who symbolizes Wharton's way of life. Ashish, who now lives in London, is the first blind trader at J P Morgan, and possibly in any bank anywhere in the world.
A group of women spending several hours outside a room in a government school in Amer block in Rajasthan is a common sight these days. This room is no ordinary classroom, but a resource room for children with special needs who have so far gone unnoticed in the traditional schooling system. However, with the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act coming into effect, the needs of differently-abled children are coming into focus.
A dictionary of contemporary Tamil will shortly be available in Braille form.
The work, based on the 2008 Tamil-Tamil-English dictionary brought out by Chennai-based Crea-A, has been published by 25-year-old Indian Association for the Blind (IAB), which is Madurai based.
S.M.A. Jinnah, founder and secretary general of the association, says that 33 differently abled persons, including 20 visually challenged and three orthopaedically challenged persons, were involved in the production of the dictionary.
Now, there is an exciting new activity in town. It scares you stiff even as it lights up the dark recesses of your mind. No, you don't come to see it. Rather you experience it. Dialogue in the Dark, as it is called, takes one down a dark expanse.
Everyday chores like visiting a park, shopping in the mall and taking a boat ride -- one learns to do in total darkness. Howzzat! The hour-long programme is an eye-opener in fact.
Thrill-a-minute
Once believed to be a male bastion, Gatka— a traditional form of Sikh martial art is also being practiced by the fairer sex now. Determined to learn this form of self-defence, many Punjabi girls are also picking up the art.
On Guru Gobind Singh's birthday, the residents of City Beautiful were enthralled with breath-taking performances on Nagar Kirtan on Tuesday.
Teaching elderly people how to use a cellphone can be frustrating.
Businessman Jagdishbhai Patel experienced this first-hand when he was planning to buy a new mobile phone for his father, 62-year-old Nangibhai Vishrambhai Patel. Most handsets in the market either had too many features or had tiny buttons on a small keypad.
“My father is growing old and his shaky fingers end up pressing two or more buttons at the same time,” he says.
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