Those above the age of three years will be given the QMMV (Quadrivalent Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccine) and those above 65 will also be g...

The plan for public security authorities' tasks and responsibilities was approved by Interior Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Haj Comm...

The kingdom's ministry of Haj said the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca this year will be for those under 65 and that pilgrims must be ful...

The curfew will be lifted as of 6 AM local time on Sunday. Restrictions will remain, however, for religious pilgrimages, international trav...

Saudi nationals and residents can still visit Mecca and Medina and pray there, provided they do not go for the purpose of umrah, deputy haj...

A subsidy for religious pilgrims amounts to discrimination against rationalists and atheists, violating Constitutional guarantees of equali...

He also accused a section of media of "only highlighting" the news related to crime in the state, where, he claimed, the situation is far b...

Mufti Mohammed Farooq, who is in his mid 60s, has been missing after the stampede which killed at least 769 pilgrims from different countri...

Modi today expressed pain at the loss of lives in stampede in Mecca and conveyed his condolences to the families of the deceased.

Najeeb Qasmi said the app is in unicode format which allows users to copy and share any information related to Haj and Umrah pilgrimages th...

Ali welcomed the proposal and said his government's top priority is to attract foreign direct investment from abroad, especially Saudi Arab...

The global volume of trade in precious stones is estimated at $ 25 billion annually of which one-fifth (or $ 5 billion) goes to the Saudis.

Performing Haj is set to get costlier for Indian pilgrims this year owing to the slump witnessed by the rupee and an increase in the costs ...

Saudi has slashed the number of Hajj pilgrims, including from India, by 20`% this year, citing massive ongoing construction work.

Around 50,000 Indian expatriates mainly unskilled labourers, were deported from Saudi Arabia until mid-September following an amnesty.

Cash from Haj pilgrims was used to finance the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack by Lashkar-e-Toiba, a US embassy cable published by WikiLeaks has...

An Air-India flight for Haj pilgrims left Jeddah carrying only 100 of its enlisted 200 passengers after they raised an outcry over an incre...