Court quashes university’s decision to fail him as he did not appear in repeat courses

The Delhi High Court has cleared the path for a visually impaired student to pursue M.Phil programme in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by quashing the institute’s decision to fail him in the second semester of M.A. (Persian) for not appearing in the repeat course exam.

Justice C. Hari Shankar not only granted relief to Ghalib Zeyad but also praised him for his “perseverance and hard work”.

Disability pensions in the Indian armed forces will continue to be exempt from tax, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh has conveyed to senior government officials, effectively rolling back a recent order that brought the provision in the tax net.

At the same time, however, the minister has called on the three services – the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy -- to device a mechanism to reduce instances of misuse of the rules, according to people familiar with the developments who asked not to be named.

BENGALURU: Here is an organisation that provides for opportunities to the deserving, young, and talented children. However, they come with disabilities of any form or from marginalized economic backgrounds. Deepanjali Trust for the Disabled was established in 2012 by three highly motivated graduates who were all visually impaired but had a strong desire to help people with disabilities and help them explore the life opportunities for which they themselves had to fight so hard to get.

With the world gearing up to celebrate the World Organ Donation Day on Tuesday, Punjab has something to add to the cheer. The state’s health and family welfare department has recorded an increase of almost 19% in eye donations, data on its website shows.

The department collected over 1,517 corneas in 2018-19 (April 1 to March 31); in 2017-18, the number was 1,274, which was just 1.3% increase over the 2016-17 figure of 1,257. Ludhiana recorded the highest corneal donations at 382, followed by Amritsar (267) and Jalandhar (173). 

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) on Tuesday urged the Centre to increase reservation for visually impaired persons in government jobs and education to 2% within the 4% quota for persons with disabilities.

The current reservation of 1% for persons with vision impairment was not commensurate with the number of persons with such disability in the country and needs to enhanced. But even 1% reservation for persons with vision impairment is not being implemented properly, the federation officebearers said at a press conference here.