Maryam Bath, 6, of Yuba City, tries to get her flag in the air during the kite festival on Sun., April 19, 2015 at North Natomas Regional Park in Natomas, Calif. Lack of wind and the heat kept ...

11 Dead At Pakistani Kite Festival. ... and a 35-year-old woman fell off the roof of her home trying to stop her son from running after a stray kite, Bano said. Basant — which means yellow in ...

People fly kites to celebrate the spring festival, Basant, in a Feb. 9, 2003 file photo, in Lahore, Pakistan. ... Others oppose the festival and kite flying on public safety grounds.

Tickets for the Basant Kite Flying Festival are open to all and can be purchased for $10 each via Venmo @UNC-PAKSOC with a name, email and number of requested tickets. @dailytarheel.

The Basant Kite Festival was banned by authorities in Rawalpindi in 2007 following a spate of accidents, but hundreds still risked arrest to take part this year; Reading Time: 2 minutes.

The Basant festival, marked by kite flying, has been rescheduled in light of the upcoming elections, and it will now be celebrated on February 16. Previously, the Basant night was scheduled to be ...

Basant festival beckons. ... But if there’s one thing the 62-year-old can be identified with, it is the yearly kite gala or Basant Festival in Sharjah he has been part of for over a decade.

The Basant kite flying festival was banned in Pakistan’s Punjab province in 2007. The government imposed the ban because of unsafe practices. But despite a police crackdown, every year hundreds ...