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Have to make clubfoot history by 2022: President Kovind
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 1 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday urged all to take a national resolve that by 2022, every child born with clubfoot gets access to treatment as soon as the condition is diagnosed.
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India's first portal dedicated to para-sports launched
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct. 6 (ANI Businesswire India): In a bid to create awareness about para-sports and provide a platform to para sportspersons to narrate their stories of triumph and adversity,thenationspride.com, the country's first portal dedicated to para-sports was launche
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Nagaland's Disability Rights activist on a mission to change attitudes
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Nagaland [India], October 5 (ANI): Diethono Nakhro, one of the leading voices supporting disability rights in Nagaland, is on a mission to change the way differently-abled people are viewed by others and to eliminate discriminations against them.
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Centre should reconsider 'disability tax' under GST: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] Jul 4 (ANI): Backing Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's remark to roll back the 'disability tax' under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, party leader Ashok Chavan on Tuesday said that the Centre should reconsider the decision and apparat
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'Insensitive' Centre must roll back 'disability tax' u
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3, (ANI): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday called on the 'insensitive' Centre to roll back the 'disability tax' under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, stressing that it would lead the disabled people thro
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Taking 5 and more medicines in 65 may up risk of death
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 28 (ANI): Ask your grandparents to consult their doctor about all the medications they take as a study warns that older adults, who take more than five medications, are at increased risk of falls, frailty, disability and even death.
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Kochi girl attacked with blade for refusing marriage proposal
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India]June 19 (ANI): Chithira, a worker at the District Disability Rehabilitation Centre (DDRC) Laboratory in Kochi, was reportedly attacked by a youth on the city's main road for refusing to marry him.
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Disabled soldiers to get pension who retired prematurely before 2006
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): In a major bonanza, the Defence Ministry on Thursday ordered to pay disability pension to all the disabled soldiers of all the three services, who took pre-mature retirement before 2006.
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Battling disability, Ummul Kher cracks UPSC exam
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2, (ANI): Living with a disability makes it difficult to achieve ones goal and it also gets harder when your loved ones disowns you for it. 28-year-old Ummul Kher has one such case but she has fought all odds and bagged an all India rank of 420 in Civil Service Examin
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Pune girl beats physical disability, scores 91.4 percent in Boards
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India] June 1 (ANI): Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12th student Harmehar Kaur Grewal has shown that physical discomfort cannot be a barrier to anyone if there is determination to achieve the goal.
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Sexual violence against college women with disabilities examined
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 16 (ANI): Patterns of sexual violence and intimate partner violence aimed at female college students with a mental health-related or behavioural disability and the health effects of this abuse are presented in a new study.
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Here`s how protein impacts intellectual disability
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 26 (ANI): A new study has paved the way for the potential treatments of intellectual disability and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
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