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Adventure and Sports
Volleyball goes the braille way in Chennai
It's an annual event the visually challenged look forward to in Chennai - a volleyball tournament exclusively for them. This year, it was a fight between fifteen teams from all over south India.
Education and Employment
Punjab govt to soon fill up vacancies for blind
The Punjab Government has decided to immediately clear the backlog of the posts reserved for the blind and partially blind persons in the state.
Visually impaired people in the Civil Services
Eyeway approaches the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) looking for specific information pertaining to visually impaired people in the Civil Services.
Medicine
Chandigarh docs find safer cataract-glaucoma treatment
A team of ophthalmologists from Chandigarh has evolved a way to concurrently treat two eye diseases - cataract and glaucoma - without post operative complications.
Retina transplants show promise in patients with retinal degeneration
Experimental technique yields improved vision in 7 of 10 patients, reports American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Products and Technology
IBM software enhances web accessibility for the blind
IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the power and time of Internet users around the globe to make the Web more accessible to the visually impaired.
Opening new portals for the blind
Pulse Smartpen, WebAnywhere among affordable new technologies.
Revolutionary breakthrough in computer access for Hindi speaking blind
The Hindi speaking Blind of
India have now got reason to rejoice as they too will be able to operate
computers independently and that too in Hindi. The JAWS Talking Software from
Freedom Scientific Inc.,
General
HC seeks railway report on facilities for disabled
The HC on Thursday sought a report on the facilities for disabled at railway platforms in Mumbai. Hearing a public interest litigation on the lack of such facilities, a division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice V M Kanade asked lawyers Mihir Desai and Suresh Kumar to visit Mumbai Central station for verifying the ground reality at railway platforms.
Exhibit on blindness lets you see ... nothing
If you were blind, could
you navigate your way around a busy city street or distinguish between
a $1 bill and a $50 bill if you were trying to buy a beer at a bar? These are some of the challenges visitors will face at a
20,000-square-foot interactive exhibition coming to Atlantic Station
this summer.
Special care no longer a challenge
To get a prosthetic limb attached or fix a hearing aid, residents of Dhubri will longer have to travel to Guwahati.
The Dhubri District Disability Rehabilitation Centre was inaugurated at the district civil hospital recently, two years after the project was sanctioned by the ministry of social justice and empowerment.
Seven blind kids do tap dancing in unique film
Can you visualise blind children learning tap dancing to perfection? This is exactly what one-time TV actor Kumar Bhatia has done in his forthcoming film 'Seven'. And he has signed on seven kids who are actually visually challenged.
Visually impaired teens operate sandwich shop: Ky. Kingdom, school team up
Three teenagers from the Kentucky School for the Blind are operating Kingdom Sub on weekdays at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom for four weeks as part of the school's Summer Career and Work Program.
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