The Indian government has embarked upon one such kind — and first-of-its-kind — project. A 12-member team put together by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is coming out with an Indian ...

For around a hundred years, Indians used sign language but did not mention it in a centrally documented form. That changed in 2018. In 2018, India published the first Indian Sign Language (ISL) ...

The Indian government has included 260 signs of financial terms in the Indian Sign Language (ISL) to help deaf and hearing impaired individuals understand and communicate about topics like bonds, ...

NEW DELHI: An online self-learning course in Indian Sign Language and a dictionary containing 10,000 ISL terms were launched on the International Day of Sign Languages on Saturday. Around 260 signs ...

India is soon to publish its first sign language dictionary. BBC Hindi's Divya Arya meets the people behind a unique initiative. Apart from a few clicks on computer keyboards and the routine shuffling ...

The country has introduced 2,500 new Indian sign language (ISL) terms covering subjects like mathematics, science and various academic fields, with an aim to enhance the existing ISL dictionary and ...

Thawar Chand Gehlot, the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, inaugurated the National Conference on 'Empowering the deaf through Indian Sign Language' in the capital on Monday. Delivering the ...

The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people and those with hearing loss. Meet the ...