LAGOS, Nigeria — The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa’s right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope with life and fight social stigma. The prosthesis came from the IREDE Foundation, a Nigerian group that provides children like her with free artificial limbs that normally cost …
In addition to the Olympics and Paralympics, there’s another epic celebration of human fortitude: The Cybathlon, otherwise known as the Cyborg Olympics. According to Max Ortiz-Catalan, a bionics engineer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, it’s “the Olympics for cyborgs, where technologies are used to overcome disabilities.” Unlike the other events, the Cybathlon commemorates new prosthetic technologies and …
The Delhi Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that where the initiation of penalty is one limb and the levy of penalty is another limb, then in the absence of proper show cause notice to the assessee, there is no merit in the levy of penalty.The bench of Anil Chaturvedi and Yogesh Kumar Us has relied on …
Tokyo: Indian shuttlers Suhas Yathiraj and Tarun Dhillon made impressive starts to their campaign in men's singles SL4 class on the second day of the badminton competition at the Tokyo Paralympics here on Thursday. However, there was disappointment in store yet again for 19-year-old Palak Kohli and her partner Parul Parmar, 48, as the duo went down 7-21 5-21 to …
India’s tally at the Tokyo Paralympics was lowered by one medal after discus thrower Vinod Kumar was deemed to be ineligible in disability classification reassessment by the organisers. The International Paralympic Committee says that “classification is the cornerstone” of the event and “determines which athletes are eligible to compete in a sport and how athletes are grouped together for competition”. …