Kite flying seems like a harmless sport. But it can also be deadly - earlier this week, two children and a man were killed after their throats were slit by kite strings that had been coated with glass ...

Three children and three adults were killed when their throats were slit by kite strings during a weekend festival in the Indian state of Gujarat. The casualties occurred at the annual Uttarayan ...

Before the festival, local police warned those celebrating the Uttarayan festival to be careful and avoid kites with strings sharpened with powdered glass Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for ...

AHMEDABAD, India, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Huddled over piles of colourful paper, Mohammad Yunus is one among thousands of workers in India's western state of Gujarat who make kites by hand that are used ...

At least four deaths related to nylon kite string have rattled India on the day of Makar Sankranti. At a time when different parts of the country celebrate the traditional beginning of the end of the ...

Did you know that you can be jailed for flying a kite? By an 80-year-old law, you need the same permit to play the line as fly an aircraft. In Delhi, it's perfectly legal to call on men to beat drums ...