As Makar Sankranti approaches on January 14, a festival celebrated for its kite flying, it remains a cause for concern among bird lovers and residents. Despite the 2017 ban on the manufacture, sale, ...

The string was sharp enough to slice into both the helmet's outer shell and its visor, an impact that Yash claimed would have ...

On Makar Sankranti, Mumbai Police urged people to celebrate the festival with care and say no to dangerous kite threads. They asked people to ensure they enjoyed the harvest festival by flying kites ...

A viral video shows a biker's helmet being sliced by a Chinese manja, exposing the deadly risk of the banned kite string on ...

Chennai: Two persons were arrested in Vanagaram on Saturday for flying kites with manja threads. According to procedural ...

‘Between January 10 and 14, ARRC received 76 manja cases across the city & PfA rescued 18 birds from these deadly threads’ City-based rescue centres attend 100+ rescue calls over last 5 days, note ...

Banned Chinese kite strings resurface at city events, injuring people and wildlife as weak enforcement undermines a decade-old prohibition Despite the Karnataka government’s decade-long ban on the ...

Nylon manja is available on the grey market and online platforms, sold through WhatsApp groups. The NMC and police are increasing surveillance ahead of the kite flying festival and Makar Sankranti.

'Manja' are highly dangerous and may easily cut one's throat, the National Green Tribunal said. New Delhi: Kite strings coated with glass, popular as 'manja', are highly dangerous and may easily cut ...

Pramod, who was last seen in Bond Ravi, this time is back as English Manja. With the film slated to hit the theatres this week, the actor shares that the film be on the lines of yesteryear mass flicks ...

Five years after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) slapped a nationwide ban on synthetic-glassed thread (manja), the prohibited goods is still being hawked, listed online, and peddled surreptitiously.