Despite its misleading name, it is not necessarily imported from China. In India, the term broadly refers to any synthetic or ...

The postman urged people to refrain from using banned Chinese manja kite strings, stressing that they pose a danger to human ...

During Makar Sankranti, kite flying fills the skies. But unsafe manjha causes injuries to birds and people. Here’s why cotton ...

The use of banned "Chinese" kite strings, synthetic threads known for their razor-sharp metallic coating, has caused a series ...

Dr Sameer Hashmi, a 28-year-old doctor in Jaunpur, was riding his motorcycle back home when a Chinese manjha - banned across the state — snapped around his neck.

Bengaluru: Hundreds of birds are injured each year by manja—the banned glass-and nylon-coated kite string—during the traditional kite-flying season around Sankranti, as a festive custom turns into a ...

Ahmedabad: Ahead of Uttarayan and amid rising concerns over fatal kite-string accidents, the Ahmedabad rural police on over the past two days busted an illegal nylon thread manufacturing and ...

Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski, illus. by Barry Root. Little Simon, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1930-7 Based on Schroff’s bestselling 2011 memoir, An Invisible Thread, also written with ...

A food delivery worker was critically injured as banned Chinese manja thread cut his throat while he was riding his bike in Hyderabad’s Shamshirganj area. He was immediately rushed to a private ...

According to an old Chinese proverb, there's an invisible thread that connects two people who are destined to meet and influence each other's lives. With Tresniowski (The Vendetta), Schroff tells how, ...