Is it just me or is it ridiculous that it's 2011 and blind people are still walking around with sub-optimal time pieces? No offense to Chavez's sleek design but a silent watch with changing braille ...

A California boy genius is using his smarts — and his LEGOs — to help the blind. Shubham Banerjee, 12, turned his toy set into a low-cost Braille printer, demonstrating his invention in videos he ...

On World Braille Day observed on January 4 every year, people with visual impairment and those working for their rehabilitation spoke about the relevance of the script even in this day and age when ...

Braille enables literacy, independence, and social inclusion for the visually impaired Recognised under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Used globally in education, ...

This year, the good news for visually impaired persons going to vote was Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Braille script in most polling booths. But while physically challenged persons had a ...

A hospital in central Calcutta just turned more inclusive. A Braille accessibility project has taken off at Islamia Hospital in Colootola, on Central Avenue. The hospital now has Braille script ...

January 05 : Lucknow: Translating Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's vision of inclusive education and empowerment of persons with disabilities into action, Dr Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation ...

Lucknow: On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the visually impaired, a braille library with 4000 books ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...