Defeating the barriers of visual impairment

A centre to diagnose hearing loss as early as the first day of birth has been established at the district differently abled welfare office, located on the district court premises. The early diagnostic centre, to be opened to public shortly, will ...

Mentally disabled individuals have different capabilities and require different levels of guidance. A RENOWNED day-care training centre for children with special needs that has been operating for 26 years in Kuala Lumpur, must now find a new home if ...

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Poynter Institute and the European Journalism Centre (EJC) are partnering to teach journalists the skills and values needed to create journalism for emerging democracies across the world. The latest collaborative ...

Stanford professor Andrew Ng, the man at the centre of the Deep Learning movement. Ariel Zambelich/Wired There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm. The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your ...

To Hindi cinema, with love and exasperated fondness Kirron Kher (centre) is mother to Abhishek Bachchan (left) in Dostana (2008) Updated: Sat, May 04 2013. 12 36 AM IST Movie mothers Mommy dearest. It became a bit difficult to take Salim-Javed's ...

China has committed $75-billion to aid and development projects in Africa over the past ­decade, research shows. China has spent millions of dollars on health and education in African countries. (AFP) Our Coverage It also reveals the scale of what ...

Improved facilities: Screen readers allow visually impaired users to read the text that is displayed on the computer screen with a speech synthesiser. Photo from The Star Anthony Thanasayan The Star Publication Date : 03-05-2013 As Malaysians troop ...

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WANCHAI, Hong Kong, April 29 -- The Hong Kong Arts Centre issued the following news release: The Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) brings forth the latest mobile app based on the features of our ...

Dataquest The visually impaired will soon be able to read SMS and e-mail on their smartphones using braille script. Sumit Dagar, an Indian innovator, has developed a unique smartphone that can aid the visually impaired to utilize other ...