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Villagers come together to stop floodwater from entering their village in
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Darbhanga (Bihar) [India], July 20 (ANI): With the administration allegedly turning a blind eye, residents of a village in Darbhanga district have taken it upon themselves to save their homes from getting submerged in floodwater.
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Indian blind cricket team will tour Jamaica to play ODI and T20 series
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 15 (ANI): Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) on Monday announced the squad for the upcoming limited overs series against Jamaica.
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Cases of trachoma trichiasis -- a cause of blindness -- on rise in India
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Union Health Ministry has received fresh cases of trachomatous trichiasis (TT) with prevalence rate at 3.5 per 1,000 population while the World Health Organisation (WHO) restricts the disease's prevalence to less than two per 1,000 population.
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Sabyasachi Mukherjee apologises for calling 'overdressed' women 'wounded'
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 07 (ANI): Ace fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee issued an apology on Sunday following the backlash he received for a post he shared on social media terming "overdressed" women as "wounded" with "dark blinding pain".
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Health remains blind spot in Union Budget: Indian Medical Assosciation
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): Union Budget presented in the Lok Sabha on Friday is a huge disappointment as health remain a blind spot, said Dr Shantanu Sen, National President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday.
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After Akshay, Tiger Shroff nails #BottleCapChallenge but blindfolded
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 4 (ANI): After Bollywood 'Khiladi' nailed the #BottleCapChallenge, it is time for Tiger Shroff to show off his impressive martial arts skills.
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J-K: First blind cricket tournament organised in Srinagar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 30 (ANI): For the first time in Kashmir, a cricket tournament has been organised for the visually-impaired players.
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Divyang father ready to sell kidney to fulfil son's dream to become doctor
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Surat (Gujarat) [India], Jun 23 (ANI): A 'divyang' father from the Adivasi area of Vaansda Taluka is ready to sell his kidney to fulfil his son's dream to become a doctor.
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This robot uses AI to identify objects by sight and touch
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], June 17 (ANI): Humans can identify objects even if they are blindfolded because of other enhanced senses such as touch or smell. Bringing similar capabilities to robots, researchers have now integrated AI into a KUKA robot arm to help it identify objects.
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Initiatives on avoidable blindness develops models to prevent, treat sight
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India] Jun 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): In a first of its kind initiative, to address the problem of avoidable blindness in India, the Ministry of Health, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), t
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I feel blindsided, embarrassed, violated: Iggy Azalea on naked pictures' l
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 28 (ANI): After Iggy Azalea's naked pictures were leaked on social media, the rapper has finally released a statement clarifying that the pictures were from a photo shoot for a magazine.
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Blind adults do recognise animal appearances
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Contrary to the idea that blind people learn about animal appearance from sighted people's descriptions, a recent study claims that with the help of logical inference blind adults gets a rich insight into what hippos and sharks look like.
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