Nashik

Nashik-based Tanvi Deore (33) rekindled her passion for swimming after an 18-year hiatus to fulfil her childhood dream of swimming the English Channel. Despite facing physical, mental, and logistical challenges, here’s how she successfully completed the 33-kilometre swim.

A ‘Made in India’ product, the RM Buddie 25 developed by Nashik-based EV startup Revamp Moto, is accompanied by swiftly swappable attachments like a child seat, saddle stay and saddle bags, insulated box, carrier, base plate and base rack.

Utopia Farmstay in Nashik has all the ingredients of an eco-friendly home. Adwait and Uttara Kher share more on how they left their jobs to live a sustainable life.

“I remember toiling in the fields barefoot, using my hands to spread the insecticides and pesticides. I could never dream of affording any technology. But those days are gone."

Savita Labhade from Nashik only found out about the debt her husband was under a year after he died. For six years since then, she worked hard to find different ways to earn a living and finance her children’s education, by starting a spice business, and opening Sadhana General Store

Sumit Sheoran and Sudhanshu Rai launched Fyllo, a Bengaluru-based Agritech startup in an effort to solve the major problems that plagued farmers. Their device, integrating software and hardware, helps sense and analyse real-time data of crops and predict diseases

Dhananjay Shinde, a city-based architect restored the 100-year-old Udoji boarding school in Nashik with a green touch

Chaitram Pawar from Baripada village near Dhule has spearheaded multiple initiatives to promote solar lights, water pumps and cookers in the hamlet

After an appeal made by IPS officer Pratap Dighavkar, Nashik farmers registered 593 complaints worth Rs 18 Crore in three weeks

Ashok Sonawane, a retired professor from Nashik, digs trenches with the help of locals in Deshwandi village to make it tanker free.