Month: February 2019

Be it booking a cab to ordering your weekly supply of vegetables, Paytm is used by many people in India, and has emerged very quickly…

“Regressive.” “Disgusting.” Those are the words being used to describe the Supreme Court judgement upholding a 50% disability limit in hearing and vision disability for…

Moved by the difficulties experienced by visually impaired people in identifying the new rupee notes, a team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT-RPR)…

After Chennai, the Kozhikode Municipal Corporation in Kerala has opened an exclusive park for disabled children at the Mananchira Square in the city. The park…

As accessible shopping experiences go, leading retail chain Future Retail Group has been raising the bar consistently with a range of initiatives. The most recent…

Two years after RPWD Act 2016, accessibility of public places remains largely on paper. Barring ramps in some government buildings, most such measures are sheer…

Those visually-impaired and well-versed only with the language of Konkani, now need not worry. Neither their blindness nor the language barrier will come between them and the use of mobile phones, computers and other technology.

The highest rates of disability are amongst those who are vision-impaired, and those who have problems to do with movement.

Rakshit Malik, 18, has every reason to be pleased with himself. He just scored 96.4% in his Class 12 exam -the third-highest score in CBSE’s disabled category.

Can technology help the visually-disabled, who have no access to books and reading resources in their schools?