Actress Sonam Kapoor has urged Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil to ban the manufacture of glass-coated strings (manja), used for flying kites, in the entire state as many birds die after getting entangled in them.

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"I humbly request your support for the recent ban on 'manja' in Mumbai as well as your immediate action to extend the ban

throughout Maharashtra," she said in a letter to Patil.