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 Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'
Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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