World Braille Day observed on January 4

Exam-focused facts from the 5 January 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

World Braille Day marks the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the French educator who developed the six-dot code that bears his name.
Braille is a tactile writing system of raised dots arranged in cells of six, enabling representation of letters, numbers, punctuation, and even musical and mathematical notation through touch.
India is home to one of the largest populations of visually impaired individuals in the world, with millions living with partial or complete vision loss.