Couple among three injured due to kite manja in Telangana
1 week ago

Couple among three injured due to kite manja in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Three persons including a couple suffered injuries due to kite manja that got tangled around their hands and neck in Shamshabad and Bhadradri-Kothagudem district on Wednesday. After crossing Muchintal, kite manja got tangled to the neck of Ranganath and when his wife was trying to remove it, she also suffered injuries on her hands. Ranganath said that he escaped with minor injuries only after his wife reacted immediately and tried to remove it and appealed to the people, especially youngsters not to use Chinese manja while flying kites on account of Sankranti festival. In a separate incident, a motorcyclist, A Krishna Rao, sustained grievous injuries after manja tangled his neck at Ramavaram village in Kothagudem Town in Khammam district.

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Three arrested for selling kites with ‘manja’ threads
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Three arrested for selling kites with ‘manja’ threads

The Hindu  

The Greater Chennai City Police have arrested three men for selling banned kites with ‘manja’ threads from Bengaluru, by advertising them on social media. The City Police Commissioner regularly promulgates an order prohibiting use, sale, manufacture, storage and import of manja thread for flying kites. After further investigation, the police arrested three men —_Mohammed Fasil, 25 of Ayapakkam; Mansur Illahi, …

Over 100 birds across Mumbai hurt by manja thread
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Over 100 birds across Mumbai hurt by manja thread

The Hindu  

Despite issuing preventive orders ahead of Makar Sankranti, Mumbai Police had registered 92 cases on the sale of nylon manja kite string in the city. The order had said that the use of manja thread kites would be a punishable offence as every year during the festival, people and birds succumb to extreme injury due to kite threads made out …

27, including 13 minors, injured during kite flying fest in Rajasthan
11 months, 3 weeks ago

27, including 13 minors, injured during kite flying fest in Rajasthan

Hindustan Times  

Amid the celebration of Makar Sankranti on Sunday, 27 people, including 13 minors, were injured in kite-flying-related accidents till 5pm in Rajasthan, said an official familiar with the matter. Twenty people, including 6 minors, were injured in kite-flying-related accidents in Jaipur, said an official from Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital familiar with the development. The rest of the minors sustained …

Birds continue to reel from Chinese manja use
1 year, 8 months ago

Birds continue to reel from Chinese manja use

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Three months on since Sankranthi or ‘the festival of kites’ was celebrated, birds in the city continue to suffer from the use of Chinese Manja as incidents of injuries and deaths among avians continue to be reported across the city. In another recent incident, a citizen took to Twitter, tagging GHMC, to post about a crow getting entangled in …

6 Including 3 Children Killed, Over 170 Injured in Kite Flying Incidents During Uttarayan in Gujarat
1 year, 11 months ago

6 Including 3 Children Killed, Over 170 Injured in Kite Flying Incidents During Uttarayan in Gujarat

News 18  

At least six persons, among them three children, were killed after their necks were slit by kite strings and 176 were injured due to cuts and falls while flying kites during Uttarayan festival in Gujarat, police said on Monday. A kite string cut the neck of two-year-old Kirti who was riding with her father on his two-wheeler in Bhavnagar city, …

Telangana man on bike dies after manja hanging from tree slashes his throat
2 years, 11 months ago

Telangana man on bike dies after manja hanging from tree slashes his throat

India Today  

A man riding a bike in Hyderabad on Saturday, January 15, died after his throat was slashed by manja hanging from a tree. While they were returning home, Sharada said that her husband suddenly stopped the moped after crossing a bridge. That’s when Sharada noticed the manja rope entangled in Bheemaiah’s neck. Also Read: Kathak maestro Pandit Birju Maharaj passes …

3-year-old who fell from Badarpur flyover succumbs to injuries in Delhi hospital
5 years, 5 months ago

3-year-old who fell from Badarpur flyover succumbs to injuries in Delhi hospital

Hindustan Times  

A three-year-old child, who had fallen off the Badarpur Flyover on Thursday evening, succumbed to her injuries in a private hospital, police said. The injured biker, identified as Mohan, in his complaint has told the police that some stray kite string hit his face and neck because of which he lost control of the bike and it rammed the flyover’s …

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