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Dehradun Railway Station introduces signage in Braille
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Mar 17 (ANI): Dehradun Railway Station has become friendly for visually challenged persons with the introduction of signages and maps in Braille.
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Divyang child swam across Periyar river in Kochi
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Mar 5 (ANI): An 11-year-old divyang child on Thursday swam across the Periyar river with his headmistress of the School for the Blind in Kochi.
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Ban on Kerala blind tusker lifted, animal to be paraded at temple festival
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Thrissur (Kerala) [India], Mar 3 (ANI): A tusker, Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, who killed 13 people and three elephants, was allowed to be paraded at temple festivals again.
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TMC MPs stage protest in Parliament premises over Delhi violence
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs on Monday staged a silent protest, wearing blindfolds, near the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Parliament over the recent North-East Delhi violence.
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Kerala minister allows visually impaired student to write Board exams with
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Feb 26 (ANI): Visually impaired Haroon Kareem TK, a tenth-grade student of Mankada Government Higher Secondary School in Malapuram district is all set to become the first student to take Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination on computers
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Allergan, Sightsavers and the IAPB announce the 'Keep Sight' initiative to
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Ganjam (Odisha) [India], Feb 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): Allergan, Sightsavers and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) today announced the launch of its unique joint initiative - 'Keep Sight India' - a community-based glaucoma screening programme to prevent glaucoma-relate
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Participants hail car rally for blind, say it will help in inclusion of vi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Feb 2 (ANI): Participants on Sunday hailed the car rally which was organised for the visually impaired in Ahmedabad stating that such initiatives will help in inclusion of the blind in society.
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Genetic test developed to predict onset of glaucoma
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): A group of researchers from Australia has formulated a genetic test that could detect people's susceptibility towards developing glaucoma, which is a debilitating ocular disease that can potentially make its sufferers go blind.
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Pak PM doesn't know about China's persecution of Uighur Muslims
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], Jan 24 (ANI): Turning a blind eye on the Chinese persecution of millions of Uighur Muslims, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan one again drew a blank when asked about conditions of minorities in China, saying "I do not know enough about it".
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New test developed to help prevent glaucoma-related blindness
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): New research conducted in Australia have come up with a genetic test to detect those at risk of going blind from glaucoma (eye disease).
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Kerala Guv acting as BJP's state president, blindly supporting Centre's an
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 17 (ANI): After Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan slammed the state government for not informing him prior to moving the Supreme Court against the Citizenship law, Congress MP K Suresh alleged that the former was behaving like a state BJP president, who is blindly sup
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Either convicts' lawyers trying to delay execution or system is blind: Nir
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Asha Devi, the mother of 2012 gang-rape victim on Wednesday voiced her disappointment from the system by saying that either the lawyers of the convicts are trying to delay execution or the "system is blind and is supporting criminals".
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