Makar Sankranti, celebrated in mid-January, marks the sun’s transition into Capricorn (Makara Rashi). Falling on 14 January 2025, the festi...

Makar Sankranti is observed every year, to celebrate the transition of the dry and dreary winter, into the breezy and warm season of spring.

Basant Panchami, regarded as one of the most auspicious festivals, is observed to mark the beginning of the Spring season by offering praye...

On this auspicious day, people take a holy dip at the confluence of the Jamuna and Ganga to purify their body and soul. Children fly kites ...

'Chinese manjha' is a glass-coated thread used in flying kites, and is notorious for its tough, plastic-like durability. It is illegal to b...

On August 15, 1947, the Indian national flag was raised for the first time at the Red Fort in Delhi.

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A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Swatanter Kumar passed the order after noting that 'manja', string coated with glass and metal powder and...

He said that a few kites in his collection are also dedicated to his late father, who was born on August 15, 1938 in Lahore and passed away...

Solar Impulse 2, the world's first solar-powered aeroplane, on Tuesday stopped by in Ahmedabad and will fly to Varanasi later this week on ...

The 53-year-old lawyer-turned-cigar baron is in India to promote his product. But he is also here for Uttarayan (Makar Sankranti).

Kite flyers from different parts of the country including Mumbai, Mangalore, Rajkot also brought their colourful creations to fill the skie...

Income for kite-flyers has spiked 600% in the past three years, as even charity organisations, politicians and local personalities create a...

Bollywood actor Salman Khan when asked whether he supports Modi to be the PM, he said, "May the best man win. It is in god's hands."

Kabul was full of well-tended parks, in which tall pink hollyhocks competed for attention with bright orange marigolds and hundreds of shad...

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has sent a letter to the forest departments of every state and union territory advising them to ba...

Modi today said even though the kite festival existed in the state for a long time, it was his government which brought it at an internatio...