A person flying kites cannot modify the thread to sharpen it for sparring with fellow flyers, the Delhi High Court has said while noting the city government has allowed only cotton thread free from ...

The excitement of Makar Sankranti is in the air, and so are the kites and deadly glass coated kite threads (manja). Markets across the country – Dhoolpet Kite Market in Hyderabad, Chandni Chowk in ...

Two children have died in India after the glass-coated string used to fly kites slashed their throats. Both incidents happened in Delhi when the youngsters were looking out from a car's sunroof. In ...

Amritsar, December 6 With the festival of Lohri being just a month away, the kite-flying season in the city has begun but so has the menace caused by the use of banned plastic kite thread. The ...

Surat: A 10-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide, reportedly distressed over his brother's refusal to buy him kite thread. On Wednesday morning, the boy asked his mother for money to buy kites, and ...

PANAJI: The state govt has announced a stringent ban on the production, sale, and use of hazardous kite-flying threads owing to the severe risks associated with synthetic and sharp kite-flying threads ...

Even as the government has banned the sale and use of plastic kite string, these can be easily found hanging on trees, electricity poles and even lying on roads, which signifies these are still widely ...

CHENNAI: A two-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man sustained injuries as they got entangled in the maanja thread used to fly kites, in separate incidents in Vyasarpadi. Police have arrested 10 people, ...

The man was pronounced dead on arriving at the hospital Police have registered a complaint against "unknown persons" Synthetic kite thread has been banned in India, but its sale and demand remain high ...

Concerns over dangerous Chinese manja overshadow the joy of kite-flying during Sankranti celebrations in Hyderabad.