FDA to undertake school campaign on ‘eating right’
Nashik: The Nashik Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will undertake an awareness campaign, involving 5,000 schools and junior colleges across the district, about “Eating Right” habits of students.
Times Of India (Nashik)
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Green bodies oppose new ghats along Godavari
NASHIK: City-based environmental group, 'AplaParyavaran - NashikSamuh', has threatened to organize a human chain agitation if the administration fails to stall the idea of constructing new bathing ghats
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Nashik Municipal Corporation to plant 12,000 trees in lieu of 2,000 to be felled
NASHIK: The civic body has invited tenders from private organisations for planting trees in lieu of the 2,000 to be hacked for widening of roads throughout the city limits. Environment activists are, however,
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Desilting along dam a threat to bird zone
NASHIK: Soil excavation near the Gangapur dam, which has been going on since May-end, could threaten migratory birds' habitat in the area, even as officials of the water resources department seem to have
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Sickle cell anaemia cases almost double in 2 years
The number of people suffering from sickle cell anaemia has risen from 19 in 2012-13 to 32 in 2013-14, even as ten carriers of the disorder were found in Nashik city, the district health office has reported.
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District admin has no data on survival of saplings planted
NASHIK: Even as the district administration claimed to have achieved 81% of its tree plantation target for the fiscal 2013-14, it doesn't have any information about how many saplings managed to survive.
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File FIR against illegal felling of trees, says NGO
Volunteers of the Manav Utthan Manch (MuM) on Tuesday staged a 'satyagraha' in front of Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) headquarters, from 11am to 1pm, demanding a first information
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Soil excavation near Gangapur dam poses threat to humans, birds
NASHIK: The soil excavation activity taking place near the Gangapur dam for the past week is a threat to nesting of birds and will cause soil erosion, harmful for both, human and animals, city's environment
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Green guards, CPWD officials to study Sinnar plantation
NASHIK: Environment activists and central public works department (CPWD) officials will conduct a joint inspection on Thursday of the trees planted at Sinnar in lieu of the ones that will face the axe
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Probe ordered into hacking of 65 trees
The municipal commissioner has set up an inquiry committee to conduct a survey of the 65 silver oak trees that have allegedly been hacked illegally on the road from ABB Circle to City Centre Mall. On
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JNNURM buses guzzle transport utility profits
Rising maintenance cost and alleged lack of support from the state government and the civic body are making it difficult for the state road transport corporation to maintain and utilize buses supplied