New Delhi: A bill to widen the beneficiary net for disabled children in Right to Education and provide those with severe disability the option of receiving education at home was moved in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2010, moved by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, provides the right to receive home-based education to children with severe disabilities and dismissed criticism...
02:51 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: A bill to include children with disabilities in the ambit of the Right to Education (RTE) Act was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2010, adds children with disability to the definition of "disadvantaged groups" and will now be a part of the 25 percent reservation offered to these groups. The Bill also gives children suffering...
07:45 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Mumbai: Major Gopal Mitra (41) may desire to borrow vision for few moments to salute the Indian tricolour flying high at the UNICEF headquarters in New York on his first day of a new job tomorrow. A former Indian Army officer, Mitra is the first disabled person from India to be appointed at the headquarters of a major UN agency. Mitra is joining the UNICEF as programme specialist, and his...
04:47 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Seven visually impaired candidates who had in 2008 cleared the IAS examination but were denied induction, have finally received their orders following intervention by the Prime Minister, a representative group for persons with disabilities said on day. The National Platform for the Rights of Disabled (NPRD), that had taken up the cases of the nine such candidates, said that while seven of them have received orders, two were...
01:13 PM, Feb 15, 2012
HYDERABAD: The year was 1984. Umendra, a young jawan undergoing training at the Artillery Centre here, was looking forward to the day he would serve his country on the battlefield. Fate, though, had other plans for him. He met with a road accident and was left paralysed chest under. Today Umendra is 48 years old and is dependent on a wheelchair. But like many of his kind, hes seen the...
08:57 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: With World Disability Day being observed Saturday, software major Micrsoft India introduced disabled-friendly tools for application in software of common use. It also announced special certification programmes for those with impairments. "It is estimated that there are around 70 million people with disabilities in India. Ensuring that their needs are met with and that they have an equal opportunity is crucial to the process of inclusive growth in...
10:30 AM, Dec 04, 2011
Kolkata: There are people who showcase hope even in moments of great despair. A group of physically challenged men and women travel miles and have refused to be restricted by their disabilities. Having traveled to 20 states, 10,000 km on the road, they have several thousand kilometres more to go. They are travellers beyond barriers. 33-year old Nishant was fresh out of college when he met with an accident that...
09:34 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Citizen Journalist Sminu Jindal talks about how public places in Delhi are inaccessible for disabled people. ...
03:53 PM, Jun 03, 2011
Los Angeles: Graphic video footage obtained by the sheriff's department shows several men sexually assaulting at least 10 profoundly disabled women, some of them in diapers, officials said Thursday. The assaults came to light when an unknown man dumped a bundle of 11 DVDs at the Los Angeles County sheriff's station in March. Attached to the videos was a note saying he had pulled them from a computer hard drive...
10:40 AM, Jan 07, 2011
New Delhi: On Monday, CNN-IBN brought the story of six-month old Chiku alias Stephen, who suffered a brain hemorrhage during delivery. His parents abandoned him saying it was the hospital's duty to cure him as they were unable to look after him in his present state. Chiku's case is not the only case. Two-year old Suhasini is one of the many abandoned children looked after by the Delhi Council for...
09:03 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Dreams were dashed for disabled athletes and spectators who had hoped to watch the Commonwealth Games with dignity. ...
01:20 PM, Oct 23, 2010
A doctor from Kolkata has opened doors of her home to outcast women. ...
07:00 PM, Feb 27, 2010
CJs work to make India a better place for the specially-abled people. ...
04:19 PM, Dec 06, 2009
Salil Chaturvedi will be sailing a boat from Mumbai to Goa with this message. ...
12:09 PM, Dec 03, 2009
Naresh Sharma was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1997. ...
11:39 AM, Dec 03, 2009
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