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CBSE Board Class 10, 12 Exam Date Sheet 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: ‘Step is inappropriate’, parents oppose move

Tue, 05/19/2020 - 15:39 -- geeta.nair

CBSE Board Class 10, Class 12 Remaining Exam Date Sheet 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: The revised datesheet of class 10, 12 pending exams have been released. Check schedule here.

CBSE Board Class 10, Class 12 Remaining Exam Date Sheet 2020 HIGHLIGHTS:  The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the revised date sheet for the pending exams for classes 10 and 12. Board had earlier announced that the exams will be conducted from July 1 to 15. Today the detailed schedule has been released.

DU might adopt open-book online exam mode from July 1

Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:09 -- geeta.nair

The Delhi University (DU) administration has decided to switch to the open book online examination mode from July 1 for final year students in case the Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t allow the university to hold exams via the conventional pen-and-paper mode by then.

The Delhi University (DU) administration has decided to switch to the open book online examination mode from July 1 for final year students in case the Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t allow the university to hold exams via the conventional pen-and-paper mode by then.

Thiruvananthapuram: Blind students from across globe join training plan

Fri, 05/15/2020 - 10:36 -- geeta.nair

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unlike cricket, there is no diplomatic  issues when it comes to blindness. The 60-day online training  programme in assistive technologies for  education launched by a city-based NGO,  Chakshumathi, has students from Pakistan,  Europe, Africa, Caribbean islands along with those from India.
For registration, contact: 7994485311, 6238475543.

Pandemic brings new challenges for the blind

Wed, 05/13/2020 - 10:44 -- geeta.nair

The coronavirus can survive on surfaces for a long time, and for those who rely on touch, it has made life more difficult.
The visually impaired understand the world through touch and feel. Without this, everything from shopping for groceries to using the elevator becomes impossible,” says K N Sudeendra Kumar, programme officer with a community-based rehabilitation forum...

A touch of technology: Blind kids in J&K to get laptops to link to Braille terminals

Wed, 05/13/2020 - 10:22 -- geeta.nair

Jammu: The School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is going to distribute 42 laptops among children who are visually impaired to provide inclusive educational support through technological interventions.

The laptops will be connected to braille tactile terminals lying in the resource rooms, School Education Principal Secretary Asgar Samoon said.
 

This will help the visually-impaired children to read and explore more learning resources from the internet,” he said.

Kerala’s blind cricketers working with a vision even during lockdown

Mon, 05/11/2020 - 12:28 -- geeta.nair

KOCHI: You have seen him; the blind lottery seller, walking   ever so gently by the side of the bustling street. You might   have even bought a lottery from him regardless of whether  you have   a penchant for trying your luck or not. That man could have   been Venugopal Mani, the 32-year-old blind cricketer from  Badiyadka in Kasaragod district.

Blind people fear relaxation of lockdown, wonder impact of social distancing on their lives

Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:56 -- geeta.nair

New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Visually impaired Amina, who relies heavily on her sense of touch, wonders what kind of ''new life'' awaits her when the lockdown imposed in view of the coronavirus pandemic relaxes.

For Amina, it is a double whammy as not only touching any surface will put her at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus but also the new norm of social distancing would make the outside world more wary towards helping her and other blind people.

Birthday surprise for specially abled

Thu, 05/07/2020 - 11:45 -- geeta.nair

Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 6

A visually challenged man, who holds MA and BEd degree, got a home when he turned 39 today.

Forced to take to begging due to the traumatic family life and failed attempts to get a job, Billu Paswan was today shifted to Sector 21-based Cheshire Homes, a place for the destitute, by the local Municipal Corporation.

He has been living and begging outside Sai mandir in Sector 29 for nearly 2.5 years.

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