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 ...

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 ...

The administration’s ban on use of nylon manja failed to dampen the spirit of people on Makar Sankranti, who were happy to pull the good old cotton threads as their kites soared high on Thursday.

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 ...

Mumbai, Maharashtra Legislative Council Deputy Chairperson Neelam Gorhe has called for stronger enforcement to stop the sale of nylon manja, a type of thread linked to several injuries and deaths.

"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 ...