CHENNAI: More than 30 years ago, in a tiny village in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram, a bunch of 10-year-olds decided to make a new evening game out of renaming the streets — from their caste-demarcated ones to those inspired from their favourite icons. Thiruvalluvar offered L R Shankar, Ambedkar said Manivanan, and M Kannan and Gnanasekaran suggested MGR.
The Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India calls women players for its training camp ahead of the World Championships, 2019 In Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India founder Madhavi Lata’s eyes, 16-year-old P Rekha is the epitome of the change sports can bring in your life. “Before she started playing wheelchair basketball, she was the shyest girl I knew,” …
ITANAGAR, June 6, 2018: Jagdish Lohar, a differently-abled teacher from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, has completed his 2550 km-long ‘cross-country motivational expedition’ which he had started with the aim of bringing awareness about the abilities of differently-abled persons. Lohar, a person with loco-motor disability of the lower limbs, started his journey on his tri-scooter from Jodhpur …
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Annie is a Braille literacy device that runs on the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-sized computer, and consists of hardware components such as a refreshable Braille display, a digital Braille slate, and a Braille keyboard Most innovations need dedication, patience, and relentless effort. And that holds true for four engineering graduates from the Birla Institute of …
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Fruit trees to be planted across the district under Nattilengum Thenkani project Mayor Soumini Jain planting a sapling of sandalwood tree on the Mangalavanam Bird Sanctuary campus at an event organised jointly by the Kochi Corporation and the Forest Department to mark World Environment Day on Tuesday. Replacing an acacia tree with the seedling of …
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