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Around 800 pilgrims were due to leave Iran on three flights to nearby Medina on Sunday, the director of the hajj at Irans Haj and Pilgrimage Organisation, Nasrollah Farahmand told state media. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Mystic Mantra: Kaaba House of God

Haj is seen as a chance to wipe clean past sins and start fresh.

19 Sept 2017 9:07 PM

A family buys goats from a livestock market in Kolkata on Thursday ahead of Id-ul-Zuha.(Photo: PTI)

Mystic Mantra: The core values of self-sacrifice

The Haj is one of the five pillars of Islam, and is seen as a chance to wipe clean past sins and start fresh.

31 Aug 2017 7:23 PM

A Muslim worshipper prays during Laylat al-Qadr, Night of Decree, on the 27th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan as pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque

No Haj subsidy, we empower minority with dignity: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Naqvi said that despite the subsidy withdrawal, a record number of 1.75 lakh Muslims will undertake the pilgrimage from...

16 Jan 2018 11:36 AM

AIMPLB secretary Maulana Abdul Hamid Azhari said, This is a religious issue, and not something to be brought up in legislation and passed in the parliament. (Photo: ANI)

Muslim board objects allowing women to travel for Haj without male

PM Modi in his 'Mann ki Baat' suggested single women pilgrims be excluded from the lottery system implemented to select...

1 Jan 2018 5:01 AM

Around 800 pilgrims were due to leave Iran on three flights to nearby Medina on Sunday, the director of the hajj at Irans Haj and Pilgrimage Organisation, Nasrollah Farahmand told state media. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Airfare for Haj gets cheaper

The increase in India's quota will be effective from the Haj later this year. Saudi Arabia last year raised India's...

27 Feb 2018 8:23 PM

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Monday. (Photo:PTI)

2 lakh Muslims will go to Haj this year

PM Modi is also expected to visit Saudi Arabia later this year for an international conference to be organised there.

29 Jun 2019 1:13 AM

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

2 lakh Indian pilgrims including 48 pc women to perform Haj this year:...

More than 2,340 women will perform Haj without 'Mehram' this year, the Union minister said adding last year, this number...

25 Jun 2019 10:44 AM

Minister of State (independent charge) for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. (Photo:AP)

Record 2 lakh Haj pilgrims from India this year: Naqvi

Total of 725 PTOs will take Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. All PTOs will take 10,000 pilgrims on the rates decided by Haj...

9 Jun 2019 12:09 PM

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Two nephews of former Pakistan PM Sharif offloaded from Haj-bound...

The two were stopped from travelling as their names were on the Provisional National Identity List.

2 Aug 2019 11:02 AM

Worshippers gathering before the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabias holy city of Mecca to attend prayers. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia announces haj health measures for domestic pilgrims

Muslims from other countries are barred from the rite for first year in modern times, while number of domestic pilgrims...

6 July 2020 4:59 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: File)

Haj application process in UP likely to be linked with Aadhaar: BJP

Asked whether the process of filing of Haj application would also be linked to IT Returns, Mohsin Raza said there was no...

26 March 2017 9:30 AM

The Quran clearly states that the only rank that eventually matters is marked by the relationship that one has with God.

An Islamic renaissance is essential

Pakistan's policies of the 1980s led to the mushrooming of brutal fanatics who have used Islam for wanton killing.

13 Jan 2017 10:08 PM