Global tender floated for shipping firms to revive sea route for Haj: Mukhtar Abbas NaqviSaudi Arabia had earlier given its nod to India's plan to revive the option of sea travel to Jeddah, over two decades after the practice wa...
View: Why only Haj? End subsidies for all pilgrimsA subsidy for religious pilgrims amounts to discrimination against rationalists and atheists, violating Constitutional guarantees of equali...
Haj subsidy withdrawal: What about funds given for Hindu pilgrimages? asks OwaisiAIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi today claimed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh gave funds for pilgrimages, and wanted to know if that w...
No subsidy for Haj, funds to be used for minority empowerment: NaqviNaqvi told reporters that despite the subsidy withdrawal, a record number of 1.75 lakh Muslims will undertake the pilgrimage this year from...
Use money saved from Haj subsidy for education of Hindu girls: VHPBetter late than never, VHP international working president Pravin Togadia said while welcoming the decision.
Muslims were cheated in name of Haj subsidy: AIMPLB"The subsidy was not given to those going on Haj but it was for Air India that is running in losses. It was an eyewash. Muslims were cheate...
Embarkation points for Haj flights to remainAn expert committee had recommended that the number be brought down to nine, to “address the concerns of state governments and pilgrims”.
Haj subsidy to be abolished gradually: Mukhtar Abbas NaqviThe minority affairs minister said the committee also suggested that the money spent on the Haj subsidy be used for the educational empower...
Over 1.7 lakh from India will perform Haj this yearA five-member committee is looking into whether subsidies have benefits and if pilgrims can travel paying less if there is no subsidy at al...
Haj application process in UP likely to be linked with AadhaarAsked whether the process of filing of Haj application would also be linked to Income Tax Returns, Raza said there was no such proposal.
UP minister Mohsin Raza wants rich Muslims to give up Haj SubsidyRaza lost his cool at the haj office on Thursday when he spotted Azam Khan’s pictures still on the walls and asked officials to realise a n...
- Steps on Supreme Court Haj subsidy order after getting judgment: S M Krishna
The government will decide steps to be taken by it on the Supreme Court order to end Haj subsidy after receiving the judgement of the apex ...
- Scrap Haj subsidy; use it for Muslims' education: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to reduce, and abolish within 10 years, the huge subsidy provided for Haj pilgrims.
- Muslim MPs welcome Supreme Court order on Haj subsidies
Muslim MPs today sought an arrangement which will directly benefit the pilgrims and improve standards of the minority community.
- Supreme Court disapproves Haj subsidy, to be eliminated within 10 years
The Supreme Court Tuesday came out against the government policy of providing subsidy to the pilgrims going for Haj to the holy city of Mec...
- Centre ropes in Saudi airlines to fly Haj pilgrims
Tender route saves Rs 175 cr for govt on Haj subsidy.
- Haj subsidy stays as SC vacates HC order
The Supreme Court on Monday vacated the Allahabad high court order that restrained the government from providing them with financial subsid...