NEW DELHI: Chinese manja, the kite-flying thread made of nylon, is set to be banned in Delhi given the high number of fatal injuries it has caused across the country, the AAP government told the Delhi ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Ahead of Independence Day and Rakshabandhan, Delhi’s power distribution companies issued an advisory, urging people not to use metal-coated manjha for flying kites. The discoms, BSES and ...

Mumbai: Terming them dangerous for people, birds, animals and the environment, the Maharashtra government has decided to ban kite flying threads commonly known as ‘Chinese manja’ or ‘Chinese dor’ ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

I am flying to Ohio on short notice to assemble a desktop CNC mill (an Inventables X-Carve). The mill itself comes with most of the tools necessary for assembly, but of course they expect you to own ...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police’s ban on the use of glass-coated ‘manja’, or string, for kites ahead of the Hindu festival of Makar Sankranti on January 14 got another thrust with the Supreme Court today ...

The New Washermenpet police have arrested five persons for flying kites using banned manja (glass-coated) thread, seized 14 kites and 4 spools of manja thread from them. Based on a tip-off, a team led ...

The Tamil Nadu government has issued a complete ban on the manufacture, sale, storage, and use of kite flying threads popularly known as 'manja threads' made out of nylon, plastic, or any other ...

That's so awesome. Looks like I have a new goal for my mid-life crisis coming up in a few years.