NASHIK: The Bombay High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to pay Rs 33 lakh to the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) as the latter's consultation fee for its study report on curbing Godavari river pollution. The order was passed by the divisional bench of …
NASHIK: The Bombay High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to pay Rs 33 lakh to the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) as the latter's consultation fee for its study report on curbing Godavari river pollution. The order was passed by the divisional bench of …
Leading packaged drinking water brands such as Bisleri, Bailey and Man- ickchand Oxyrich don't expect Ms Mamata Baner- jee's plans to sell cheap bot- tled drinking water to rail- way travellers to eat into their sales. However, indus- try experts feel that if the plans to set up six clean …
Forget those images of ravaged villagers, kids with distended bellies and ragged clothes and a future as grim as the cracked, sun-baked earth. Islands of poverty still exist but most of rural India is transformed beyond imagination thanks to a host of factors which has put unprecedented wealth into the …
India is the second largest bicycle maker in the world with an annual turnover of 12 million units per year, the industry one of the most established and stable industries in the country. Chennai-based cycle manufacturer is thinking big; TI Cycles has become the second largest cycle manufacturer in India …
In a grubby courtroom in Manmad, a major train junction around 90 km from Nashik, a pitched battle is being fought to protect the rights of an elephant. Lakshmi has been in custody since April 14 after the Manmad police registered a complaint against the owner, alleging that he had …
The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of UASB reactor for treating municipal wastewater. The study has been conducted for the UASB reactor installed at Tapovan, Nashik in Maharashtra during the year 2005.
India's most hi-tech power turbine is finally expected to be liberated from a narrow hill road between Mumbai and Nashik on Tuesday, almost nine months after it got embarrassingly stuck on its way to Chhattisgarh as the National Highway here was not strong or wide enough to take the load. …
If you thought a large glass of milk a day is essential for good health and strong bones, you could be mistaken. In a 20-page report released Thursday, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), stated that the unhygienic conditions of major dairies across India, may in fact make …
maharashtra has set up a committee to look into the growing prevalence of sickle cell anaemia in the state and prepare a plan to check the spread of the disease. The move comes in the wake of a recent study in 19 districts by the Nagpur-based Indira Gandhi Medical College …
WHILE writing out the receipt for Pandurang Kadam's onion crop on April 19, the trader did not realise that it would be used as forensic evidence. The next day Pandurang returned to the Lasalgaon market and set himself on fire. The town watched in shock as Pandurang burned in the …
over 1,000 residents of Gondegaon village, about 55 kms from Nasik, are living in perennial fear of an imminent earthquake. The fear gripped the village after a stream of the Damanganaga river near the village "vanished', accompanied by a kilometre-long deep crack along the river course. Besides, about 0.15 metre …
WHILE inaugurating the Sixth Tribal Literary Conference in Nashik recently, Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma called for the implementation of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution through-out tribal areas in the country. The Sixth Schedule, which at present is applicable only to the north- eastern states, talks of granting …
Drip irrigation brought honours and money to Javerilal Kapurchand Kanaria of Nashik district when he ventured out of his cloth business and began growing pomegranates, each weighing more than a kg. Two years after Kanaria started his scientific farming in Taharabad, his balance-sheet -- Rs 6 lakh annually from a …
