Using a combination of ordinary nylon thread and conductive ink, MIT scientists have created artificial muscles that can perform many of the motions found in natural muscle tissue. The researchers ...

Ahmedabad: Ahead of Uttarayan and amid rising concerns over fatal kite-string accidents, the Ahmedabad rural police on over ...

The Kashyap household, after several days of sitting idle, is bustling as the shop on the front of the house is finally seeing the kind of sales that one expects this time of the year. NAGPUR: Sanjay ...

Watch out if you are flying a kite using nylon threads. You may be called a hunter under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act and booked for it. Kite fliers using nylon threads, famously known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man on a two-wheeler in Pune received a neck injury from a nylon manja thread. Despite bans, the thread is still being sold in the city. A 45-year-old man on two-wheeler received neck injury due to ...

The Karnataka government today banned with immediate effect nylon threads commonly known as ‘Chinese dor’ or ‘Chinese manja’ used for kite flying, saying it causes grievous injuries to birds, animals ...

"The Du Pont Company must have been highly gratified,” the Wilmington Sunday Star reported on October 29, 1939, “by the way Wilmington women flocked to the stores on Tuesday to take advantage of the ...