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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicVisually impaired

Topic: visually impaired

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

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

Chennai visually impaired lawyer creates history by clearing Supreme Court’s advocate-on-record exam

Rewati Karan -
N.Visakhamurthy, a patient of Retinitis Pigmentosa with Macular degeneration, is among 26O candidates to clear exam held in December last year. He had earlier cleared TNPSC & UPSC.

How do visually challenged Indians confirm they voted on right button? EVMs need upgrade

Akshay Bajad -
In EVMs, there is no way of knowing if the assisting person has cast a vote for the candidate picked by the visually challenged person.

Why the visually challenged are signing petitions addressed to apps such as Zomato, Swiggy

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Recent Change.org petitions have drawn attention to the problems visually challenged users face while using popular delivery apps such as Dunzo, JioMart, Grofers and others.

Visually impaired and blind voters to be provided with Braille voter slips

PTI -
The Election Commission also plans to provide Braille election photo identity cards to visually challenged voters.

How IIT-Delhi start-ups are helping draw visually impaired students into science

Kritika Sharma -
While one start-up focuses on tactile graphics, the other looks to augment graphics with audio. 

RBI seeks mobile phone-based solution to help visually impaired identify banknotes

PTI -
The move will benefit around 80 lakh blind or visually impaired people in the country. 

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Opinion

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

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BJP 2024 manifesto on investment, farm income, panchayati raj—lack of clarity is worrying

Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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