Plea filed in January by Kuldeep Singh Bhullar, who has been employed with the Punjab Agricultural University for over 16 years and has a condition that has led to 60% disability.
The court pulled up the National Medical Commission and the Directorate General of Health Services, asking them to abide by its February 2025 judgment.
Dehradun's Sandarbh Gupta, who suffers from multiple congenital disorders, is paralysed waist down. His father, a Rlys technician, is posted in Lucknow, his mother the main caregiver.
Without accurate enumeration, policy remains incomplete and India continues to make millions of its own citizens disappear, not by neglect, but by design.
‘Many schools rejected me because they didn’t see me — they only saw my disability,’ said activist Nipun Malhotra, who received the National Award for Individual Excellence last week.
In an order delivered on World Disability Day, apex court issues a slew of directions to UPSC to safeguard rights of candidates belonging to PwD category.
The 2011 census recorded only around 2.68 million individuals as persons with disabilities in India, far lower than WHO’s report, which indicates 16 per cent of the global population lives with some form of disability.
Calling persons with disabilities ‘Divyang’ may sound noble, but critics say it romanticizes struggle, masks barriers, and risks replacing real rights with token symbolism.
The guidelines ask whether a student can climb stairs, but not whether the college has a ramp. They ask whether a student can bear weight, but not whether the system can bear the weight of its own prejudice.
The launch of Tarini Mohan’s memoir Lifequake was a tribute to the author’s resilience, who had slipped into a coma and lost function in her right hand after a road accident.
Morbi makes 80-90% of India’s ceramic exports. The West Asia conflict has cut its propane supply, shutting 200 factories and threatening 400 more—along with 9 lakh livelihoods.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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