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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], January 15 (ANI): More than 1,600 birds were rescued with kite thread injuries and brought to Jivdaya Charitable Trust between January 1 and January 15 by volunteers ...

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 ...

The youth was riding his bike when a Chinese kite thread got entangled in his neck and slit his throat. The victim was rushed to district hospital Udhampur in a car by a local, who was passing by.

A video of a cop from Jaipur saving a bird stuck in kite threads has taken social media by storm. Many people hailed him as a hero. Jaipur’s traffic police constable Prem Singh is being hailed as a ...

Amritsar: Ahead of the Lohri festival, the district authorities announced a one-time free, no-penalty exchange of Chinese dor (kite flying thread) with traditional dor, a safer kite-flying thread.

Sharp kite strings have killed three people in India in a single day, according to police. A 4-year-old boy had his throat slit while he was looking out of a car’s sunroof and a 22-year-old man ...

Hundreds of residents participated in this year's Winchester Reads program, which was centered around "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. Little did the community know it had a kite runner in its ...