Chennai: One in a lakh Indians is thought to suffer from multiple sclerosis, a life-long disorder of the nervous system. Support groups are lobbying to bring the disease under the Disability Act, and are fighting for insurance cover. It was 18 years ago that Mariam Nisreen was struck by multiple sclerosis. She just woke up one day, feeling pain in her eyes, tingling in her feet and parts of her...
10:39 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Watch this week's Citizen Journalist show on World Disability Day with some very special anchors. Enjoy! ...
12:56 AM, Dec 04, 2011
CJ Rashid shows how accessibility in public places remains a dream for the physically challenged in Srinagar. ...
08:18 PM, Dec 03, 2011
Washington: In what could be called a major finding, scientists claim to have discovered a gene linked to intellectual disability. Intellectual disability is a broad term describing individuals with limitations in mental abilities and in functioning in daily life. It affects one to three per cent of the population and is often caused by genetic defects. A team at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, led by Dr John...
05:15 PM, Jul 29, 2011
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After covering Science and Technology for five years, I recently moved to CNN-IBN's show Citizen Journalist. It is a show about citizens actively taking up ...
12:33 PM, May 30, 2011
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I met Mala Bhargava for the first time on Friday, April 15, 2011. She's rip-roaringly funny, unapologetically direct, in your face. The sort who'd cut ...
06:32 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Karnataka: In a bid to make movement easier for the disabled, a group of students has developed a prototype of wheelchair that could be manoeuvred skillfully with just the movement of the occupant's head. The face-guided wheelchair, developed by a group of final year diploma students of KLE Society's CIM Polytechnic has bagged the best project award at a national level competition recently, makes use of a new sensor, called...
04:18 PM, Mar 25, 2011
London: A 10-year-old British girl, whose one leg was amputated due to meningitis, has been told that benefits given to her would be stopped because she was "very mobile" and could play sports. Olivia Porter has a prosthetic right limb. She also cannot use her right arm and says the false leg is often painful. But the department of work and pensions has said in a letter that Olivia's monthly...
01:52 PM, Mar 25, 2011
On World Disability Day, Harsh, a father to a very special daughter has turned Citizen Journalist. ...
09:42 AM, Dec 03, 2010
On World Disability Day, para swimmer and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Prashant Karmakar has accused the Railways of insulting his achievements. He was promised a position in the Railways by none other than Railways Minister Mamta Banerjee after his bronze medal but he feels he's being insulted with a Group-D job. Prashant was quite hopeful when he was promised a job by Mamata Banerjee but when the offer came, it...
08:08 AM, Dec 03, 2010
Big B has been accused of poking fun at people with disabilities. ...
04:36 PM, Dec 05, 2009
The event for people with intellectual disability kicked off in the Capital. ...
02:10 AM, Oct 31, 2009
Artists in this group suffer from polio, dyslexia, cerebral palsy and autism. ...
04:06 PM, Dec 04, 2008
Citizen Journalist Sminu Jindal reports from the historic monument. ...
04:21 PM, Dec 03, 2008
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