-The Hindu To give visually-challenged persons a chance to read history of civilisation penned by country's first Prime Minister, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is releasing the Braille edition of Jawaharlal Nehru's “Letters from a Father to his Daughter” at its Teen Murti House premises here this coming Monday. The Braille version, embossed by Lal Bihari Shah Braille Academia, Blind Persons' Association, Kolkata, will be released by Social Justice and Empowerment...
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In a first, women No.1 and No.2 in civil services exam
History has been made in this year's civil services' results. In a rare first, the top two candidates are women. Topper S Divyadharshini is an alumnus of Dr Ambedkar Law University in Chennai. Sweta Mohanty, who did her B Tech in computer science from Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology (GRIET), Hyderabad, has come second. The merit list boasts of five women candidates in the top 25. R V Varun Kumar,...
More »Gujarat releases Braille version of RTI by Manas Dasgupta
A Braille version of the Right to Information Act and its rules was released here on Thursday by the Gujarat Information Commission for the benefit of the Visually Challenged. According to Chief Information Commissioner R.N. Das, Gujarat is the first State to bring out a Braille version. He said the Commission was also working on bringing out an audio CD for the Visually Challenged and other differently abled people to explain...
More »Where children need wheelchairs, not toys by Sarabjit Pandher
Toxicity in Ferozepur district's groundwater is causing crippling disorders among children in several villages Sutlej water gets polluted by effluents and seeps into groundwater People in border areas upset at official apathy The toxicity of the groundwater in over four dozen villages in the border areas of Ferozepur district of Punjab has risen to such alarming levels that an increasing number of children now requires wheelchairs more than toys, as they fall victim...
More »Another RTI activist gets death threats by Melvyn Thomas
After the visually-challenged RTI activist Ratna Ala, another RTI crusader from Valsad, Ketan Shah has lodged a complaint stating that he has been threatened for his activism by the chief officer of Valsad nagarpalika and senior officers in the district administration. For Shah, major shock came after the nagarpalika passed a resolution — a copy is with TOI — in the general body meeting on October 19 to blacklist him and...
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