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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...
21 Jan, 2018, 09.37 AM IST
Saudi Arabia okays India's plan to ferry Haj pilgrims via sea route: Mukhtar Abbas NaqviNaqvi said that sending pilgrims through ships would help cut down travel expenses significantly and added that it would be a "revolutionar...
08 Jan, 2018, 01.14 PM IST
New Haj policy this week, Mumbai-Jeddah sea route to be revivedA key feature of the policy, expected to be implemented from the next year, will be to revive the option of sending pilgrims via the sea ro...
01 Oct, 2017, 12.33 PM IST
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...
02 Apr, 2017, 03.39 PM IST
Many Indians opt out of Haj this year as rupee slumpsPerforming 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 ...
04 Sep, 2013, 02.50 PM IST
- Fortune awaits Kerala family that built resting place in Mecca
The Saudi government had decades ago deposited 14 lakh Saudi riyal as compensation after the structure was pulled down as part of expansion...
22 Apr, 2013, 08.02 PM IST
- 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.
09 May, 2012, 02.13 AM IST