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, …
Hyderabad: The forest department will be deploying around five to six mobile parties with uniformed staff and NGOs to go around shops selling synthetic manjha in its bid to ensure implementation of the ban order against it during Sankranti. In coordination with other departments like police, GHMC, PCB, NGOs and wildlife conservationists, the forest department is carrying out a publicity …
On the eve of India’s 76th Independence Day, 26-year-old Abhishek Kumar, who ran a tent business in Delhi, was heading to his home in Jyoti Colony on a scooter when a stray strand of Chinese manja, a synthetic string coated with powdered glass, slit his throat while crossing the Nathu Colony flyover. Every time a Chinese manja claims a life, …
Taking cognizance of reports that banned Chinese synthetic thread, or manja, was being sold illegally at many places in Jammu during the current festive season, Jammu Police has carried out raids to check the menace of the sale of glass coated thread. During the search, 64 banned synthetic thread rolls were recovered from his vehicle and after intense questioning, 1018 …
