Mar 22: To lure private entrepreneurs to hire more disabled person, Bangladesh government on Sunday announced tax incentive.

KUWAIT, Mar 21: Twenty-eight state primary schools in Kuwait are currently participating in a pilot program to encourage the 'inclusion' of children with disabilities in the educational mainstream.

WASHINGTON, Mar 18: The World Bank's Board approved today an additional credit of $60 million for Nigeria's Partnership for Polio Eradication project.

New Delhi, Mar 17: The Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) is planning to launch a short-term course to train teachers across the country in disability issues, an official said Thursday.

Mar 16: Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that normally works with our eyes to process vision and space perception can actually rewire itself to process sound information instead.

ACCRA, Ghana, Mar 12: Mrs Lydia Asamoah, National Women's Secretary for Deaf Women in Ghana, on March 11 called on Ghanaians to learn sign language to enable deaf people to access information since they have a lot to contribute to the development of the nation.

CHENNAI, Mar 10: A group of persons with disability staged a demonstration here on Wednesday demanding a comprehensive law which recognises all rights of persons with disabilities.

MANILA, Philippines, Mar 08: Saying it is not just a matter of implementing the law but also consideration for  disabled people, Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson has ordered the strict compliance to the special law on disabled persons which allows them easy access to government and private buildings.

MALE, Mar 07: The Maldives government is distributing an allowance of Rf2,000, to people with disabilities.

Mar 07: The Arab Games will be moved from November to December due to potential conflicts with football qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup and the 2012 London Olympics.