J Prakash's unbeaten 115 in 52 balls and his unbroken opening partnership of 175 runs with Ajay Kumar Reddy (51 not out) helped defending champions India thrash Sri Lanka by 10 wickets and enter the final of T20 World Cup for the Blind at Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday.
Only one member of a teenage gang which brutally bashed up an Indian student and blinded him in one eye was on Wednesday given a suspended jail term with community work while others escaped custodial sentences.
Former Australian captain Steve Waugh will build a school for the blind in India, home to 50 percent of the world's visually challenged.
Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye since an accident during his youth and was a one-time member of the Muslim Brotherhood, his successor has claimed in a new video tribute to the terror mastermind.
Legally blind since his late teenage years, Canada's Brian McKeever will achieve a long-cherished dream and a place in the record books when he represents his country at this month's Vancouver Olympics. The popular cross-country skier from Canmore, Alberta, will become the first athlete to compete in both a Winter Olympics and a Paralympics and he fervently hopes to inspire as many people as he can, whether they are disabled or able-bodied.
South Korea set the first world records of the London Olympics, both in the men's archery competition, with legally blind Im Dong-hyun breaking the 72-arrow mark with 699 points.
The party on Wednesday removed former minister Sudhir Sharma, who was among the six rebel MLAs who were later disqualified for defying party whip on the state budget, from the post of All India Congress Committee secretary with immediate effect.
'My mother, who was a simple woman, retorted, "Aur main Indira Gandhi bol rahi hoon".' 'We had a good laugh over that one, you and I.' On her second death anniversary, February 6, Subhash K Jha remembers his beloved Lata Didi.
Darkness pervades India's first 'Seeing in Dark' restaurant-theatre built in the upscale Vastrapur area in Ahmedabad where visitors can experience life without light just like a visually impaired person.
If you have an appetite for crowds and the visual spectacle of many focused on one task or activity, a pooram will engage you, notes Shyam G Menon.
'No one in the history of the sport has ever come back from that kind of accident and got hundreds against England and Australia.'
Amit Kilam of band Indian Ocean speaks to Chandrima Pal about the explosion in vernacular contemporary music.
Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives
Global logistics major FedEx on Thursday extended its programme of increasing public awareness about blindness in partnership with Orbis Flying Eye Hospital to India.
Blame game between Bihar police and Railway Protection Force over compensation for slain Mohd Mustafa, who fell victim of a stray police bullet a year ago in Bihar's Katihar district, has left his blind parents to starve.
At the heart of Paytm's slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy, notes Indrajit Gupta.
In nearly 100 seats, the BJP stands almost no chance of winning. In 200 seats, it is a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress where the BJP has an upper hand. In 243 seats, the BJP is pitted against regional parties and it is not going to be easy. That is why 400 seats may end up as a pipe dream, states Ramesh Menon, author of Modi Demystified: The Making of a Prime Minister.
'The moment a new election comes, new guarantees are announced.' 'The BJP is adept at diverting people's attention.'
Sports Ministry confirms Satwik, Chirag for Khel Ratna, Shami and 25 others for Arjuna award
This favourite Holi dish can be made without deep frying the baras or bhalles.
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Opening up new career paths and educational opportunities for people with vision impairment, the system combines a number of pattern recognition technologies into a single platform and, for the first time, allows mathematics and graphical material to be extracted and described without sighted intervention.
'I played around 140 matches for RCB, but I received no proper communication from them.'
'If you can do new things everyday, your mind will be challenged.'
Shami was there to receive the honours. He took 24 wickets in seven World Cup games last year.
The Delhi high court has restrained the misuse of the name, image, voice and other attributes of persona, including Anil Kapoor's 'jhakaas' catchphrase for commercial gain.
Heaping praise on India, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Indian leadership is 'self-directed' and led by the country's national interests, according to Reuters.
Founder-director of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, and two functionaries were arrested on charges of blind-folding statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Park in Coimbatore as part its campaign against the nod given by Supreme Court for conducting Jallikattu.
Some flights of Kingfisher, GoAir, JetLite and Jet Airways operated during the 'curfew hours' from April 4 to April 30 -- from 9 AM to 1 PM and 3 PM till 7 PM--in the past few days when the vital ground navigational aids were switched off for repair and maintenance.
It is crucial to electoral democracy that the exercise of freedom to vote is not subject to undue influence, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while striking down as unconstitutional the electoral bonds scheme for political funding.
The accused rendered the 13-year-old girl, a student of standard VI, unconscious and raped her while she was carrying food to workers in his guru's fields at Khorana village near Shivpuri, MP.
Over 550 guests attended the Toronto Netralaya Lions Club and Doctors Lions Club fundraising dinner September 14 in Mississauga, Ontario.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday termed the cancellation of over 25,000 school jobs as 'gross injustice' and alleged that it was a ploy by the Bharatiya Janata Party to stop these job losers from being deployed in poll duty.
According to insiders, their lack of enthusiasm is showing on the ground. There is nothing to suggest that their enthusiasm will return in the final four phases of polling, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The ministry said it has launched an inquiry to ascertain as to how this "factual information" was not included in the ministry's response to an RTI query.
The different strength of the tingles can be read or interpreted so the user can mentally visualise their surroundings and navigate around objects.
A new technology now allows visually challenged to work shoulder to shoulder with people in the BPO industry.
Rahul is the first member of the Gandhi family to have visited Deoband and Darul-Uloom in more than two decades.
In a state where thin margins and minor swings decide electoral outcomes, nothing can be left to chance, even for those relishing the cocooned life, observes Shyam G Memon.
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