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 ...

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 ...

Chinese nylon threads are not only used to fly kites, but also used to snare birds in Nalsarovar — the only Ramsar site in the state. Forest officials have recovered some 60 spools of Chinese threads.