In response to persistent reports of severe injuries caused by Chinese kite string, commonly known as 'manja', the Bhopal ...

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Three people died, and a policeman is critically injured due to banned nylon manja during Makar Sankranti celebrations in Maharashtra. Incidents occurred in Nashik, Akola, and Nandurbar, where victims ...

Nagpur: Ajni police intercepted an e-rickshaw and seized 120 pieces of banned nylon kite string (manja) around 1.45am on Dec ...

A 22-year-old man died after falling from a building while flying a kite, while three other persons were injured by the kite strings in separate incidents in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, police said on ...

BELAGAVI: A shocking incident at Shahapur in Belagavi on Sunday evening left a three-year-old girl seriously injured after a kite string, believed to be the banned Chinese manja, got entangled around ...

New Delhi, Aug 3 (PTI) Four men were booked for allegedly selling banned glass-coated ‘manja’ in Gandhi Nagar area of Shahdara and central Delhi’s Hauz Qazi, area the police said today. Ahead of the ...

As we watch the dismantling of the EPA here at home, the National Green Tribunal in India, its highest legal environmental authority, has been caught up in kite strings. And it’s a serious business.

Borivli resident Rajesh Gokhale, 38, learned the hard way how dangerous kites can be. His throat was slit by the manja (the kite string) while he was on the road on Tuesday. Gokhale, 38, a badminton ...