Child Blind

Three persons, including the director and principal of a blind school and children's home in Kolkata's Haridevpur area, were arrested on Thursday following complaints of rape of a minor girl at the institution, police said.

"I am a father today and I know the raw emotion that comes with a child," said Abhishek Bachchan

A six-year-old girl was raped and blinded by the attacker near her home in Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, the police said today. The child has been admitted to hospital in a critical state.

The scene looks like something from a middle-of-the-night drug raid. Guns drawn, police officers in tactical vests surround a beige ranch house in an anonymous subdivision. With a single decisive kick, one busts down the door. "Come out with your hands up!" an officer yells, as a flashlight's blinding beams begin sweeping the room.

New Delhi: An illustrated book seeks to address the problem of visual impairment due to refractive error in children and is available in English and six other Indian languages. The book titled “The Singing Tree” is being distributed to 75,000 children free of cost to spread awareness on visual impairment and its easy identification and treatmen...

A video that went viral this week showed a legally blind mother in Canada getting to look at her newborn child for the first time thanks to vision-enhancing glasses.

Pakistan's blind cricket captain Zeeshan Abbasi was once a shy and awkward child who relied on his family and friends to get by in a country where disability is a major stigma.

A spree of children in the family made her go for a sterilization operation at a government-run camp. But Dholki, a tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh, was in for a rude shock. Not only did she become pregnant with her seventh child but the infant was born blind.The wife of daily wage labourer Jag Singh, Dholki is a resident of Taan village in Barwani ...

More than three-quarters of children born before the 26th week of pregnancy are affected by cognitive and neurological impairments later at school level.

Three persons, including the director and principal of a blind school and children's home in Kolkata's Haridevpur area, were arrested on Thursday following complaints of rape of a minor girl at the institution, police said.

"I am a father today and I know the raw emotion that comes with a child," said Abhishek Bachchan

A six-year-old girl was raped and blinded by the attacker near her home in Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, the police said today. The child has been admitted to hospital in a critical state.

The scene looks like something from a middle-of-the-night drug raid. Guns drawn, police officers in tactical vests surround a beige ranch house in an anonymous subdivision. With a single decisive kick, one busts down the door. "Come out with your hands up!" an officer yells, as a flashlight's blinding beams begin sweeping the room.

New Delhi: An illustrated book seeks to address the problem of visual impairment due to refractive error in children and is available in English and six other Indian languages. The book titled “The Singing Tree” is being distributed to 75,000 children free of cost to spread awareness on visual impairment and its easy identification and treatmen...

A video that went viral this week showed a legally blind mother in Canada getting to look at her newborn child for the first time thanks to vision-enhancing glasses.

Pakistan's blind cricket captain Zeeshan Abbasi was once a shy and awkward child who relied on his family and friends to get by in a country where disability is a major stigma.

A spree of children in the family made her go for a sterilization operation at a government-run camp. But Dholki, a tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh, was in for a rude shock. Not only did she become pregnant with her seventh child but the infant was born blind.The wife of daily wage labourer Jag Singh, Dholki is a resident of Taan village in Barwani ...

More than three-quarters of children born before the 26th week of pregnancy are affected by cognitive and neurological impairments later at school level.