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Friday, July 25, 2025
TopicBlindness

Topic: Blindness

Forces behind blind football in India: Self-taught coach & player with 2028 Paralympics goal

India’s men’s blind football team is ranked 14th globally, and the women’s team, launched in 2019, holds an impressive second position.

Elon Musk’s implant could help the blind see. All about Blindsight that got FDA ‘breakthrough device’ tag

The FDA approval given to Musk's start-up Neuralink allows for human testing. A look at how Blindsight works & Neuralink’s controversial work over the years.

Sai Paranjpye’s ‘Sparsh’ squashes the ‘lachar-bechara’ image of blind people

Sparsh also highlights that number of books in Braille is abysmally low. It also shows how stories for the blind must make sense to them.

‘Dr Nilkanthrai’s Braille’—this Gujarati surgeon made Devanagari blind-friendly

Dr Chhatrapati made a proposal to Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda about teaching the visually impaired. Gaekwad gave him Rs 300.

How cornea implant made from pig skin helped 20 people see again in trial held in India, Iran

The study was conducted by researchers from Sweden’s Linköping University. Details of the Phase 1 trial and its outcome published last week in scientific journal Nature Biotechnology.

You can’t end poverty without tackling blindness

Almost 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries and the main cause of this often avoidable blindness is cataracts.

78-year-old man in Israel regains eyesight after 10 years, with help of ‘artificial cornea’

The patient was able to recognise his family and read text once the bandages were removed, claims the hospital at Petah Tikva where the surgical procedure was carried out.

A needle in the eye promises improved treatment for blinding glaucoma

Projected to affect about 80 million people by 2020, the condition causes progressive loss of peripheral vision which ultimately leads to blindness.

On Camera

India uses BRICS to push reforms—not to challenge the US

India has been pleading for long to bring reforms in institutions like the United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, which it believes are West-dominated and don’t reflect current global realities.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.