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How This Zomato Rider Went Out Of Way To Return Missing Food Items
A Zomato delivery agent with partial paralysis went out of his way to return missing food items from a customer's order and refused a Rs 20 tip for the trouble.
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Blog: I Have Cerebral Palsy. Indian Railways Is Indifferent To My Train Travel
I am 44 and have cerebral palsy. I vividly remember my trip from Chennai to Delhi by train in the early nineties mainly because of the starvation I had to bear before starting my train journey. I used to start my diet by eating little or no solids almost 36 hours before I started from Chennai. This was necessary for the toilets in the train were in...
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Driverless Taxi On Seoul Campus Offers Glimpse Of Future
A South Korean university is testing a sedan that can pick up and transport passengers without a human driver, giving a glimpse into the future of autonomous public transport.
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Train Berth Reservation for Physically-Challenged Made Easier
In a much-needed relief to the physically-challenged persons availing concessional rail fares, Railways has rationalised provisions for allotment of berths in a sleeper class under such quota by earmarking middle seat for the accompanying passenger.
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Wheelchairs for Nigeria: Getting Polio Survivors on the Move
Six new wheelchairs are lined up near the entrance of the Beautiful Gate Handicapped People's Centre in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
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BMC Wants Handicapped Fireman to Give Physical Test for Promotion
When it comes to thankless jobs and inconsiderate employers, Mumbai's firemen seem to have everyone else beat.
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Kolkata: Man Allegedly Kills Handicapped Son, Shoots Himself
Depressed at his inability to make ends meet due to heavy expenses incurred on the treatment of his handicapped son, a 55-year-old man in Kolkata on Tuesday allegedly shot dead his son before killing himself, police said.
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Physically challenged boy invents a game of chess for 6 people
A nine-year-old boy in Jaipur has got the patent for a unique invention, a game of chess that six people can play together. The idea came to the Hrideshwar, a class fifth student, when he was playing chess with his father, and his friends came over and wanted to be part of the game. Hrideshwar then decided to invent a chessboard for six people.
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RPF dog has first right to seat in disabled compartment
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials' ways were for all to see on Thursday, with a jawan's insistence that his Labrador was more deserving of an entire seat in a train's bogie reserved for disabled people than the disabled themselves, who had to cover the journey standing up. After asking a disabled man to vacate a public bench last week, a...
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At this orphanage 'will power' drives these handicapped
They are physically handicapped, but Mani Rapgyal, Thupten Tsering and their likes in the orphanage run by Padmashree awardee Lama Thupten Phuntsok in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district are not deterred from doing something in life.Thus Mani Rapgyal, who had to put aside his dream of pursuing business after shock from a naked electric wire forced ...
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Kin demands job for girl whose legs Metro crushed
Two days after a Metro train ran over a young man and 22-year-old Mehzabeen and rendered her handicapped for life, her relatives demanded that the Delhi Metro or the state government should help by giving her a job.
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On a high, with RTI
Here's a story of a relentless RTI activist whose spirit is not curbed by his age.
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How This Zomato Rider Went Out Of Way To Return Missing Food Items
A Zomato delivery agent with partial paralysis went out of his way to return missing food items from a customer's order and refused a Rs 20 tip for the trouble.
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Blog: I Have Cerebral Palsy. Indian Railways Is Indifferent To My Train Travel
I am 44 and have cerebral palsy. I vividly remember my trip from Chennai to Delhi by train in the early nineties mainly because of the starvation I had to bear before starting my train journey. I used to start my diet by eating little or no solids almost 36 hours before I started from Chennai. This was necessary for the toilets in the train were in...
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Driverless Taxi On Seoul Campus Offers Glimpse Of Future
A South Korean university is testing a sedan that can pick up and transport passengers without a human driver, giving a glimpse into the future of autonomous public transport.
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Train Berth Reservation for Physically-Challenged Made Easier
In a much-needed relief to the physically-challenged persons availing concessional rail fares, Railways has rationalised provisions for allotment of berths in a sleeper class under such quota by earmarking middle seat for the accompanying passenger.
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Wheelchairs for Nigeria: Getting Polio Survivors on the Move
Six new wheelchairs are lined up near the entrance of the Beautiful Gate Handicapped People's Centre in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
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BMC Wants Handicapped Fireman to Give Physical Test for Promotion
When it comes to thankless jobs and inconsiderate employers, Mumbai's firemen seem to have everyone else beat.
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Kolkata: Man Allegedly Kills Handicapped Son, Shoots Himself
Depressed at his inability to make ends meet due to heavy expenses incurred on the treatment of his handicapped son, a 55-year-old man in Kolkata on Tuesday allegedly shot dead his son before killing himself, police said.
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Physically challenged boy invents a game of chess for 6 people
A nine-year-old boy in Jaipur has got the patent for a unique invention, a game of chess that six people can play together. The idea came to the Hrideshwar, a class fifth student, when he was playing chess with his father, and his friends came over and wanted to be part of the game. Hrideshwar then decided to invent a chessboard for six people.
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RPF dog has first right to seat in disabled compartment
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials' ways were for all to see on Thursday, with a jawan's insistence that his Labrador was more deserving of an entire seat in a train's bogie reserved for disabled people than the disabled themselves, who had to cover the journey standing up. After asking a disabled man to vacate a public bench last week, a...
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At this orphanage 'will power' drives these handicapped
They are physically handicapped, but Mani Rapgyal, Thupten Tsering and their likes in the orphanage run by Padmashree awardee Lama Thupten Phuntsok in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district are not deterred from doing something in life.Thus Mani Rapgyal, who had to put aside his dream of pursuing business after shock from a naked electric wire forced ...
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Kin demands job for girl whose legs Metro crushed
Two days after a Metro train ran over a young man and 22-year-old Mehzabeen and rendered her handicapped for life, her relatives demanded that the Delhi Metro or the state government should help by giving her a job.
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On a high, with RTI
Here's a story of a relentless RTI activist whose spirit is not curbed by his age.
