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This year’s Hajj is a landmark: the first full pilgrimage after a daunting period of three years when the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced the scale of one of Islam’s holiest rites

MUMBAI: Haj pilgrims using services of Private Tour Operators (PTOs) and tour operators have requested union minister of minority affairs Smriti Irani to issue the Haj quota of PTOs. Out of 1,70,000 Haj quota of India this year, 1,40,000 pilgrims will travel through Haj Committee of India while around 35000…

Asim Riaz was spotted at the airport early this morning (April 9) as he left for Mecca for his second Umrah in the holy month of Ramadan. This time around his brother Umar Riaz was seen accompanying him.

Childhood friends and actors Aly Goni and Asim Riaz are going to perform their first Umrah together and they wished everyone ‘Ramadan Mubarak’. The two have jetted off to Mecca for the Holy pilgrimage. Aly and Asim shared a series of pictures while giving a glimpse of the same.

This year, Muslims are celebrating the year 1444 in the Islamic calendar

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Rows of tables remain completely deserted and still ready to be loaded up inside a once-busy abandoned Mecca Bingo Hall in new images shared by an urban explorer

Before the pandemic, the hajj pilgrimage drew millions each year to Islam's holy city of Mecca, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that observant Muslims pray toward five times a day.