Social security benefits worth over $3,500 per month along with annual cost-of-living adjustments CoLA can be availed? Details hereSocial Security Update: Disability is funded mainly by a 1.8 per cent payroll tax split between employers and employees; that money goes in...
14 Dec, 2025, 12.34 AM IST
Breaking barriers: How India’s professionals with disabilities are transforming workplaces and leadershipInspiring individuals with disabilities are transforming their challenges into opportunities. From wheelchairs to boardrooms, from hearing ...
01 Dec, 2025, 11.22 AM IST
Aamir Khan and Gauri Spratt host President Droupadi Murmu at Sitaare Zameen Par screening with neurodivergent castPresident Droupadi Murmu attended a special screening of Aamir Khan’s film Sitaare Zameen Par at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre. Th...
25 Jun, 2025, 10.23 PM IST
Trump targets FAA diversity efforts in plane crash probe despite no evidence they played any rolePresident Donald Trump blamed diversity hiring at the FAA for a deadly air disaster this week, despite no evidence linking the hires to the...
01 Feb, 2025, 09.21 AM IST
Amazon workers in India endure intense pressure, unsafe working conditions: UNI Global UnionAmazon warehouse and delivery workers in India are facing intense pressure and unsafe working conditions while dealing with insufficient pa...
10 Jul, 2024, 08.07 PM IST
World Braille Day 2022: Screen-readers, customised apps, HR automation bring some hope to visually impairedAssistive technologies are helping those with vision impairment to equip themselves in a rapidly changing world.
04 Jan, 2022, 05.13 PM IST
Govt notifies over 3,500 jobs for persons with benchmark disabilitiesThe Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities notified 3,566 posts on January 4 in central government establishments as suitab...
15 Jan, 2021, 09.00 PM IST
Amazon India launches skill development programmeThe initiative has been launched with a pilot program for 1,000 apprentices, and will be scaled further, Amazon India said in a statement.
14 Jul, 2020, 04.52 PM IST
PhDs to fish vendors, census 2021 will capture allCensus 2021 will dig deeper and ask detailed questions for a more finely-grained data set.
13 Jul, 2019, 02.19 PM IST
Acid attack victims to get quota in central government jobsThe move to enhance reservation quota for those with learning disability and acid attack victims comes after passage of the Rights of Perso...
28 Jan, 2018, 01.53 PM IST
Government jobs for those with learning disabilities tooNine months after the enactment of Right of Persons with Disabilities Act in April 2017, the Centre has spelt out the rules for employing d...
25 Jan, 2018, 07.42 AM IST
Why companies are hiring people with disabilities?Amid wave of conscious capitalism, products and services with a streak of social good find favour among investors and consumers.
12 Nov, 2017, 06.10 AM IST
India's best cos to work for 2017: Enabling the differently abled makes Lemon Tree a special employerZubbin Arora joined City Center, Gurugram in 2011 as management trainee, and became assistant hotel manager of the upscale property six yea...
03 Jul, 2017, 02.03 PM IST
Inclusive India to give same chance to differently-abledThe three core focus areas of Inclusive India would be Inclusive Education, Inclusive Employment and Inclusive Community Life.
07 Jun, 2017, 12.57 AM IST
Government planning new inclusions under Disabilities Bill, mulls including dwarfismThese include proposal for admission of special children in govt-recognised educational institutions; specific learning disability to be in...
26 Jan, 2016, 05.28 AM IST
Health Minister JP Nadda wants to provide easy accessibility to medical servicesNadda today called for collective efforts to provide accessibility to medical services and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.
03 Dec, 2014, 05.00 PM IST
Preference for melancholia over enterprise is deeply embedded in the Bengali psycheOver a period of time Chatterjee rose to become a well-known Bengali entrepreneur with diverse business interests across the globe.
29 May, 2014, 12.36 PM IST