New Delhi: A 23-year-old man was arrested for possessing seven reels of illegal metal-coated manjha (Chinese manjha) from east Delhi's Shahdara, officials said on Saturday. Delhi has banned the ...

Prayagraj: With district authorities banning the production, storage, and sale of Chinese manjha, cops on Sunday laid out an elaborate plan to check its sale and production in the city, trans ...

He told shopkeepers and traders not to sell it. The electricity department also warned about the risks, saying Chinese manjha has metal and iron particles, which can cause accidents if it touches ...

Banned, yet in use The problem lies in the thread, popularly known as Chinese manjha. The manufacturers of of the string use glass and metal powders to coat the line, making it extremely sharp ...

and Tripura are issuing orders prohibiting all forms of manjha, including cotton threads coated with glass, metal or other sharp materials, the IMA said. The IMA has written to Union Environment ...

The main problem is not flying kites but rather using Chinese metal-coated manjha (strings), which puts both kite flyers and birds at risk. A doctor at a bird hospital in Delhi's Chandini Chowk ...

Chinese manjha, unlike the legal cotton manjha, is made of nylon coated with glass dust and microscopic pieces of metal. “It will cut off a man’s throat but it won’t break,” said a ...

including popularly known as 'Chinese manjha', and any other kite-flying thread that is sharp or made sharp such as being laced with glass, metal or any other sharp material, in the National ...

The ban also included cotton manjha coated with glass, metal powder or are coated with synthetic non-biodegradable substances. Manjha menace in Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC ...

"Chinese manjha is a conductor of electricity due to the use of metal in it. Some also use copper wires as well as barbed metal wires for kite flying. These methods of kite-flying can cause severe ...

Animal activists have rescued more than 60 birds injured by kite 'manjha' in Mumbai as part of a three-day drive during the Makar Sankranti celebrations, a wildlife welfare group representative ...