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06 Jun 2024

Shriya Saran Hails Para Athlete Simran Sharma And Her Husband Gajendra

Visually Impaired Para Athlete Simran Sharma won gold at the World Para Athletics Championship in Japan.

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25 Mar 2023

Visually Impaired Sense Their Heartbeats Better Than Sighted: Study

The study reveals that the blind participants were superior at sensing their heartbeats than sighted participants.

06 Dec 2022

Taapsee Pannu's 'Blurr' special screening held for visually impaired

Blurr Release Date: The film is about the death of a blind girl and its investigation by her twin sister, who is also gradually losing her eyesight.

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05 Jul 2022

Indian Railways installs Braille navigation maps at Chennai, Egmore stations

Southern Railway installs Braille navigation maps at Chennai, Egmore stations Railways took this decision to make railway stations visually impaired-friendly The Braille Maps were installed on July 4

06 Dec 2021

AirAsia introduces flight manual in braille for visually impaired passengers

AirAsia has partnered with Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind Launches in-flight safety manual in braille Wheelchair assistance can now be pre-booked online

21 Feb 2020

'Divya Nayan' is a boon for visually impaired

Government agency CSIR-CSIO has developed “Divya Nayan”, a personal reading machine for visually impaired to access printed or electronic textual information. The device is useful for the targeted disability group for accessing printed and digital information. This will help to read out a printed or electronic document without the help of any volunteer and hence, in turn, will help in their education and employment.

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05 Feb 2020

Maniesh Paul cheers for visually impaired in cricket match

Maniesh Paul met all the players and shared a lot of stories with them and made them laugh.

06 Oct 2018

Visually challenged cricketer approaches SC for inclusion in IPL

A partially visually challenged cricketer from Uttar Pradesh has filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a direction for inclusion in the next year's Indian Premier League (IPL).

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01 Dec 2017

Visually impaired facing problems with new currency: HC

The court said the matter was of "very grave public interest" and should be addressed seriously.

19 Apr 2017

Visually-impaired Sagar Baheti finishes Boston Marathon

More than 30,000 runners took part in Boston Marathon, one of the oldest and most prestigious events in the world.

22 Feb 2017

'Princess India' title: John Abraham to honour the winner of beauty pageant for visually impaired

The hunk of an actor in B-Town, John Abraham has a heart of gold as he believes in lending his support to several social causes! The actor will reportedly be seen crowning the beauty pageant winner but it does have a difference.

13 Jan 2017

'Kaabil' will inspire people: Yami Gautam

Bollywood's fair and lovely girl Yami Gautam is all set to star opposite superstar Hrithik Roshan in Sanjya Gupta's directorial 'Kaabil'. Both the lead actors play visually impaired characters in the film.

28 Nov 2016

Why astronauts become visually impaired on longer space missions

Astronauts usually suffer from visual problems when they go for a longer space mission.

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28 Mar 2016

Touchscreen tablets beneficial to the visually impaired: Study

Apple's famous tablet has several advantages, including helping people suffering from vision loss see and read information more easily, researchers at Canada's Concordia University have found.

11 Mar 2016

Wow! Soon, Wikipedia to read content to you!

The new project will make the online encyclopedia more accessible to users, particularly the visually impaired.

23 Nov 2015

Bracelet to help blind people navigate in the works

Two entrepreneurial engineers from the Tec de Monterrey institute in Mexico have taken wearable technology beyond just emails and social networking, by creating a bracelet with a very specific purpose.

24 Sep 2015

Special identification features in notes for visually impaired

RBI Thursday said special features have been introduced in Rs 100, Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes to help visually impaired easily identify them.

09 Oct 2014

Smartphone app for the visually impaired launched

An application equipped with Braille typing feature that promises to assist the visually-impaired in using all features of a smartphone was launched here Thursday on World Sight Day.

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