The payment system in the city's cabs is about to be more accessible for the blind or visually impaired — and advocates say the move is on the money.

Creative Mobile Technologies, which powers the touch-screen systems inside half the cabs in New York City’s fleet of 13,000, will begin upgrading their existing technology to allow the visually impaired to know their fare and use the credit card payment system.

He's been blind since age 15. But nobody can say that Mason Ewing lacks vision.

Overcoming a nightmarish childhood, Ewing, 30, has been a successful fashion designer in Paris.

For the last six months, however, his mind has been set on Hollywood, where he hopes to create a teen comedy and a dramatic series for television.

Born in Cameroon to an American father and a Cameroonian mother and raised in France, his own life has been filled with drama.

The event will be held in Jothic auditorium, Johor Bahru at 7.00pm, on 29th April 2012.

Sunadha is unique cultural troupe from Samarthanam Trust, India. They will be performing Indian classical and folk dance.

According to Banumathi Krishnan, the head of the dance unit for the Johor Bahru Temple of Fine Arts, the proceeds from the tickets will be spent on the troupe, organising costs and some will be allocated for land funds.

This amendment adds children with disability to the definition of “disadvantaged groups” and will now be a part of the 25 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Section category, under the Right to Education Act.

The bill has given special benefit to children suffering from autism, mental retardation, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities of choosing to study from home.

The District Disability Rehabilitation Centre of Mysore has organised a comprehensive rehabilitation camp for differently-abled on May 1 and 2 between 9 am to 6 pm at the Government School for the Blind, School for Deaf and Dumb of Tilak Nagar, said deputy commissioner P S Vastrad.

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Researchers are adapting technologies - originally made for robot navigation - to help visually impaired people navigate indoor and outdoor spaces independently.

The trend of plastic money has caught on with the visually-challenged youths of the City. They staged a demonstration here on Monday against non-issuance of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards to them by commercial banks.

They protested policies of commercial banks that deprive them of their basic banking rights. Banks across the country not only issue ATM cards but also make the machines accessible, enabling the visually-challenged customers to operate them independently, they argued.

Even as there is much anticipation of the listing of amendments to of the RTE Act in the Lok Sabha on Friday, disability rights activists have expressed their discontent over the amended RTE Act that allows home-based schooling for severely disabled children. The Rajya Sabha passed an amendment in the RTE Act recently widening the beneficiary net for children with disability and providing those with severe disability such autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities the benefit of choosing to study from home.