The first batch of 431 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir departed for Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj on Saturday, officials said. The group,...

India's Haj quota for 2026 has been confirmed at 175,025. Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju signed the bilateral Haj Agreement in Jedd...

India's Haj quota for 2025 has increased to 1,75,025, a significant rise from 1,36,020 in 2014. While arrangements for the main quota of 1,...

Saudi Arabia allocated 175,025 pilgrims for India's 2025 Haj pilgrimage. The quota is split 70:30 between the Haj Committee of India and pr...

Saudi Arabia has announced a restriction barring individuals with any type of visit visa from entering or remaining in Makkah starting from...

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...

In a circular, the committee said that the Ministry of Haj and Umrah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has issued a statement informing that due to...

The decision was taken after Saudi Arabia's Haj and Umrah minister Mohammad Saleh bin Taher Benten telephoned last night and suggested not ...

A circular issued by the Haj Committee of India on Friday said only a few weeks are left for the preparatory work in India for Haj 2020, ye...

An online application, e-visa, Haj mobile app, "e-MASIHA" health facility, "e-luggage pre-tagging" providing all information in India itsel...

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

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

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 Saudi authorities had five years ago slashed quotas for foreign pilgrims coming from each country by 20 per cent in view of safety of t...

It was also conveyed by the MoS that the using of catering services in Mecca should be optional for the countries as when roads are closed ...

India asked Saudi Arabia to reconsider its decision to reduce the number of overseas pilgrims to the country by 20%.