Hyderabad: Nine people lost their sight after undergoing surgery at a private hospital in Ongole town of Andhra Pradesh. The victims, from poor families, were Sunday shifted to the government-run Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital here. The doctors said the retinas were damaged and chances of their regaining eyesight were bleak. The victims underwent cataract operation three days ago in Ongole, about 340 km from here. Doctors here blamed infection for...
02:42 PM, May 27, 2012
SOMWARPET: Having turned blind, he could have become helpless and dependent on others. But on the contrary, H A Rudrachari (53), a native of Hanagallu Shettalli near here, has been earning his livelihood for two decades, defying all odds.Rudrachari, a tailor, gradually began losing his vision and turned completely blind by 1984. The family was in distress. His mother Gangamma (99) says they were forced to sell land for treatment...
08:09 AM, May 15, 2012
Beijing/Washington: China said on Friday blind dissident Chen Guangcheng could apply to study abroad, suggesting an end may be near to a diplomatic crisis that has soured relations between Beijing and Washington. But some sounded a note of caution over expectations of any quick resolution to an issue that is bound to be contentious for China's leadership, which may fear that being soft on Chen could unleash more dangerous challenges...
03:01 PM, May 04, 2012
Beijing: The United States faces a tense week in China as high-level talks on trade and global hot spots like Iran and North Korea open in the shadow of a blind Chinese activist's bold escape from house arrest to seek US protection in Beijing. The trip to Beijing would have been challenging for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner even without a human rights dispute over...
12:32 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: It took them a while, but officials at Chembur police station have finally registered an FIR against Uday Agarwal for allegedly fraudulently wresting a Rs 1 crore flat from his visually impaired daughter. Neha, 21, had lodged written complaints with Chembur police as well as the zonal deputy commissioner of police, claiming that her grandfather, 82-year-old Nandlal Agarwal, had gifted her flat number D-2 at Jeevan Cooperative Society in...
01:37 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Shillong: Bertha Dkhar's free school in Meghalaya helps hundreds of poor visually impaired students have a vision for the future. Thanks to her invention of introducing the local Khasi language in Braille, hundreds of her students can read and write in their mother tongue. A student Pynskhemlang said, "We don't care whoever takes care of us because our headmistress Bertha is there to look after us." Bertha is more than...
10:05 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Mohammed Wasim is a young helpline operator at India's National Association for the Blind (NAB) who could only perceive brightness and lights, but the lack of ability to discern shapes meant living in a shapeless world where every small obstacle could prove a barrier. However, viSparsh, a belt-based sensor system (sparsh means touch in Hindi) created by a young team of engineers, could herald a revolutionary change for...
12:34 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when the Supreme Court has asked the state governments to provide shelter to the homeless, a group of visually challenged students in Delhi have been forced to live out in the open, after their shelter in the Virender Nagar area near Janakpuri in west Delhi was sealed without notice by the authorities. Till 2010, the nearly 30 visually-challenged students of the Louis Welfare Blind Association...
04:35 PM, Jan 28, 2012
This week on India Positive, stories about technology for farmers, gadgets for blind and saving endangered species. ...
11:17 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: In a cricket crazy nation like India, everyone wants to enjoy the game let alone play it. There is a group of young boys in the capital whose love for the sport hasn't got in the way of their physical disabilities. This young bunch play a 4-team cricket tournament in the Capital. Most of these young cricketers are visually impaired and call the game 'blind cricket'. Mohammad Salim,...
09:16 AM, Dec 02, 2011
A cricket team of visually impaired players from India wants to prove that India and Pakistan are one. ...
11:58 PM, Nov 18, 2011
CJ Rinku and CJ Shekhawat are visually challenged. They study in regular schools. They now ask for inclusive education for others like them. ...
10:43 PM, Nov 12, 2011
In this episode we bring you the stories of blind people who made their dreams come true. ...
07:23 PM, Oct 09, 2011
In this special series we bring you stories of ordinary men doing extraordinary deeds. ...
09:57 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Pune: As a visually impaired student, sixteen year old Suchita felt there were no vocational institutes where she could realise her dream of becoming a teacher. That's when she heard of Meera Badve's Niwant, a school and vocational institute in Pune. Meera Badve says, "Niwant aims to change how the society thinks that the blind can't go beyond school." A chance visit to a blind school and her teaching experience...
09:04 AM, Oct 05, 2011
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