Hyderabad: Gulzar Houz, a popular market that sells kite-flying paraphernalia, wears the look of a political war zone, with kites and threads named after popular politicians and movies. To name a few, ...

Kite flying enthusiasts, take note. The National Green Tribunal and Government of Telangana have a special message for you. “Ensure a safe & jail-free Sankranti. Don’t buy, sell or use ...

HYDERABAD: It was a year ago that Mohammad Rahmat, a 30-year-old manja maker from Old City, saw his world turning upside down. For Rahmat, popularly known as Chotu in Dabeerpura’s Patang Market, the ...

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 ...

Despite a ban on nylon Manja, few sellers continue to sell it before the festival of Makar Sankranti. On a visit to Ravivar peth, HT reporter spotted buyers openly asking for the banned “nylon manja.” ...

With kites set to soar in the skies, ‘manja' makers of the old city are hoping for some good times and an increase in their income as well. The Sankranti festival less than a month away, makers of ...

The deaths of three people as a result of accidents involving so-called Chinese manja in Delhi on August 15 has renewed the focus on the danger posed by the powdered glass-coated line that is used for ...

As a teenager in the 1920s, Dilip Kapadia spent long hours indulging in his first love of flying kites. This was at Girgaum’s Chowpatty beach before the 2014 ban on patang baazi and manja wars kicked ...

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.

Danger for the winged creatures lurks in the sky. As the kite festival draws near the threat of birds getting killed by the Chinese manja looms large. Despite appeals by the Telangana Forest ...

With Independence Day round the corner, it’s that time of the year when colourful kites take over the Delhi sky, but not without injuries from the manja (string used to fly a kite). No more casualties ...