India organised a core group meeting in hybrid mode on ‘Human rights violations emerging from re-verification and re-assessment of certificates of ...

CHENNAI: A PIL seeking to direct the Union and state govts to provide 7% reservation to disabled people in both the Houses of the Parliament and all state assemblies has been filed in Madras high ...

NEW DELHINEW DELHI — Vijay Lakshmi, 85, stood beaming at the entrance of her house as she welcomed a team dispatched by the Election Commission of India. They were here to collect her vote. The team ...

A special stadium will be built in Haryana for athletes belonging to the persons with disabilities (PwD) category, and it will have residential facilities for them, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini ...

The World Health Organization estimates that around 15 per cent of the world’s population has a disability. Several million are thought to be displaced but often remain invisible within uprooted ...

New Delhi: It was nearly five years ago, during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, when Anchal Bhateja’s father misplaced her debit card. On going to the bank’s nearby branch, the bank manager flatly ...

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) and the state government to file affidavits in response to a petition claiming that the Right of Persons with ...

Kanpur: The district election office and the administration, under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) campaign, conducted a special campaign in the district to include the names of disabled people ...

NEW DELHI: India is set to notify revised and stricter national standards for elevators used by people with disabilities, designed to make buildings safer for them, more accessible and easier to ...