Model polling booths for all constituencies in Delhi
New campaign to ensure better poll day experience for differently-abled will be put in place: Vijay Dev
New campaign to ensure better poll day experience for differently-abled will be put in place: Vijay Dev
He may need a walking stick to help him find his way but he is a true master when it comes to the game of chess. Charudatta Jadhav lost his vision at the age of 13. The only reason that gave him courage to fight his disability at that tender age was his passion for the game. He soon became the blind superhero of Indian chess.
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Israel's Bar Ilan University have developed a prototype contact lens that could enable the visually impaired to see the world in a whole new light. Developed by Professor Zeev Zalevsky, the contact lens processes digital images and translates them into tactile sensations which can then be felt on the user's cornea, allowing them to form a picture of their physical surroundings.
At a programme organised in the Lake City today by Inclusive Empowerment Centre Nepal, an organisation working for visually disabled people, Computer Association Nepal (CAN) Kaski chapter General Secretary Achyut Khaniya made public the latest version of the software.
"My mother has lost vision in one eye and the other is causing her big problems," says one boy. "She can't see where she's going."
Another child says her grandmother is blind in both eyes and is forever pulling out her eyelashes. "She rubs and rubs them," explains the nine-year-old girl. "They give her terrible pain."
To make law education accessible to a wider social milieu, a group of a law school alumni has set up ‘Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education’ (IDIA), a not-for-profit organisation and have helped around 180 candidates crack the common law admission test (CLAT).
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