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Telling Numbers: Blindness and visual impairment in India, district by district |
The report found that the prevalence of blindness is highest among those who are at least 80 years old (11.6%).
The National Blindness & Visual Impairment Survey India 2015-2019, released last... |
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16/Oct/2019 |
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ID cards, voter slips in Braille for blind |
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 15
Identity cards and photo voter slips had been printed in Braille for the convenience of visually impaired persons in the state, said Chief Electoral... |
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16/Oct/2019 |
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Visually challenged share their travails |
KOCHI: Walking by the road or crossing it is a huge task for Yeldo K Abraham who is visually challenged. He might have the iconic white cane with the red band in his hand. But it doesn’t protect him... |
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16/Oct/2019 |
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Never be defeated, Never give up’, says first visually challenged woman IAS officer Pranjal Patil |
“Never be defeated, Never give up”, said Pranjal Patil, the country’s first visually challenged woman IAS officer, as she assumed charge as the Sub Collector of Thiruvananthapuram here on Monday... |
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15/Oct/2019 |
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Pranjal Patil, first visually challenged woman IAS officer, takes over as Sub-Collector of Thiruvananthapuram |
Thiruvananthapuram: Pranjal Patil, India's first visually challenged woman IAS officer on Monday took charge as Sub-Collector of Thiruvananthapuram.
A warm reception was arranged to welcome her as... |
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15/Oct/2019 |
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No challenge too big for India’s community of runners with visual impairment |
Learn what running with vision impairment is like, and what inspires these marathoners to take it up
A 116 half marathons, 67 10Ks, five ultra marathons, and one intercity marathon. These are the... |
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15/Oct/2019 |
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Microsoft, IIT Delhi to hold conference to make accessible assistive tech for people with disabilities |
Microsoft India is partnering with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi to host the second edition of Empower, a conference that will bring together researchers, technologists and policy makers... |
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14/Oct/2019 |
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Celebrating their abilities |
Chandran’s Yuva Foundation helps the visually challenged and hearing-and-speech impaired people stand on their own feet
It is 5:00 pm and Santhosh C has finished tailoring 50 cloth bags. He places... |
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14/Oct/2019 |
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Top officials discuss strategy to carry out census exercise |
2021 census to be conducted through mobile phone app
Top census officials have discussed a strategy to carry out the massive exercise to count different aspects of India’s a billion plus population ... |
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11/Oct/2019 |
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A new Samsung commercial called, "Caring for the Impossible" focuses on the DeafBlind in India... the product looks great, but is the commercial |
Samsung produced an ad a while ago called, “Hearing Hands.”
It was about a deaf guy in Turkey, whose community all of the sudden learned sign language to communicate with him. While I was interested... |
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11/Oct/2019 |
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