Naqvi said the entire Haj 2022 process will be held according to the necessary guidelines to be issued by the governments of India and Saud...

The Haj 2022 will be announced after consultations with different departments concerned in the upcoming Haj review meeting to be held in Ne...

Naqvi said around 50 per cent of the total applicants so far are women and over 700 women have so far applied under the without 'mehram' (m...

Naqvi also said that the Haj is scheduled for June- July 2021, and the entire process is being followed as per the guidelines issued by the...

On Monday night, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi received a phone call from Haj and Umrah Minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad ...

1.40 lakh pilgrims will go through the Haj Committee of India,.

The decision was announced by the Ministry of External Affairs after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with visiting Saudi Crown Prin...

The Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, which had resulted in about 1,300 Muslim women going for the p...

At the event, Naqvi said the Saudi government has always played an active and effective role to ensure safety and better facilities to Indi...

"Rs 57 crore less will be paid to airlines this year even after ending the Haj subsidy," a statement from his office quoted the minister as...

Saudi 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...

This is first time that women will be performing rituals without a 'mahram'. The Centre plans to deployed Haj assistants to help the women ...

Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi claimed that the increase over the past two years - of nearly 40,000 - is a "record expansion" since Ind...

Naqvi said that sending pilgrims through ships would help cut down travel expenses significantly and added that it would be a "revolutionar...

The Centre has for the first time decided to allow women pilgrims over the age of 45 to undertake the pilgrimage in groups of at least four...

Modi, had on December 31, announced that his government would ensure that all the 1,300 Muslim women, who had applied would perform Haj, an...

More than 2.63 lakh people have applied for undertaking the annual Haj pilgrimage till December 13. Out of this, 1.38 lakh applications hav...