China lays claim to four big inventions: the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. But Wang Yongshun is convinced there should be a fifth one - kite-making. "We made kites as far back in ...

Police with the seized bundles of Chinese kite strings in Jalandhar. (HT Photo) The crackdown is part of an initiative to combat the illegal sale and use of these fatal strings, which have been ...

Punjab Police have seized 80,879 bundles of Chinese kite strings, commonly known as ‘manjha’, and registered 90 First Information Reports (FIRs) in the last 20 days, targeting those involved ...

The Chinese General Han Hsin of the Han Dynasty flew a kite over the walls of a city he was attacking to measure how far his army would have to tunnel to reach past the defences. Admiral Yi of Korea ...

Stunt kites from Greece, Chinese Dragon from Indonesia, a series of 100 kites of Kathakkali in a row are among the kites to be flown during the two-day ONGC-MRPL Mangaluru International Kite ...