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Monday, April 27, 2026
TopicDisability rights

Topic: Disability rights

The RPwD Act has aged well. What are the gaps to be filled after a decade of progress

The ultimate vision of the RPwD Act will be fulfilled when models such as the Karnataka system are strengthened and replicated across states.

Why HC has turned a disabled PAU scientist’s plea for suitable housing into Public Interest Litigation

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.

‘Judgments binding, not optional’—SC steps in again, orders NEET disability norms rewrite by March

The court pulled up the National Medical Commission and the Directorate General of Health Services, asking them to abide by its February 2025 judgment.

After ThePrint report on 9-yr-old paraplegic boy’s court battle for dad’s transfer, ray of hope from HC

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.

Govt incompetence erases disabled from census count. 13 steps to fix it

Without accurate enumeration, policy remains incomplete and India continues to make millions of its own citizens disappear, not by neglect, but by design.

Nipun Malhotra got Zomato to add a wheelchair filter. Now he’s won National Disability Award

‘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.

Blind UPSC candidates get a boost with big Supreme Court order on scribes & screen readers

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.    

No Indian Census has counted the disabled population right

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.

SubscriberWrites: ‘Divyang’ and Politics of Naming —Rethinking Language for Persons with Disabilities

Calling persons with disabilities ‘Divyang’ may sound noble, but critics say it romanticizes struggle, masks barriers, and risks replacing real rights with token symbolism.

MBBS guidelines for students with disabilities reduce a life to a limb

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.

On Camera

Amit Shah, not PM Modi, is Mamata Banerjee’s real challenger in this Bengal election

According to BJP leaders in West Bengal, five factors are working against the Trinamool Congress. When you travel across the state, these factors do surface in one form or another.

Indian tech giants struggle to shake off $115 billion rout amid Iran war, AI challenge

Infosys, the second-largest outsourcer, forecast annual sales growth below analysts’ estimates Thursday, following a profit miss at smaller rival HCL Technologies two days earlier.

DRDO unveils amphibious battle platforms with crewless turrets, anti-tank missile capability

Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.