-The Hindu In a step towards empowering Visually impaired persons in Himachal Pradesh, National Federation of the Blind is all set to open a school in Shimla. The school, which was approved by the National Federation of the Blind, shall be opened in Rohroo area of Shimla, an official said. In north India the Special Blind Schools are already working in Kapurthala in Punjab and Ambala in Haryana, and now Himachal shall...
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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 »Play on Khairlanji atrocity poses discomfiting questions by Rahi Gaikwad
The story of Khairlanji as a story of the plight of the Scheduled Castes in scores of villages has joined the pantheon of protest literature of the Dalit movement with the staging of Marathi play Tanta Mukta Gaon (Dispute-Free Village). The Maharashtra government in 2010 declared the village of Khairlanji, infamous for the brutal killings of four members of the Bhotmange family, a “Tanta Mukta Gaon” under a government programme which...
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 »Rise in glaucoma worries doctors by Daulat Rahman
Assam has witnessed an alarming rise in patients suffering from glaucoma, a disease that causes permanent blindness. According to a conservative estimate, out of every 100 patients visiting the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO) here, nearly 10 suffer from glaucoma. Of the Visually impaired in Assam, 10 per cent are victims of glaucoma compared to 5 per cent five years ago. RIO’s director C.K. Baruah told this correspondent that though many suffered...
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