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25 Children Killed After Bus Carrying Religious Pilgrim Crashes In Nigeria
- Tuesday September 17, 2024
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A bus carrying Muslim faithful celebrating the birth of Prophet Mohammed crashed in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, killing at least 25 children, an official told AFP Tuesday.
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28 Pakistani Pilgrims Killed After Bus Overturns, Catches Fire In Iran
- Wednesday August 21, 2024
- World News | Agence France-Presse
At least 28 Pakistani pilgrims travelling to Iraq for a Shiite Muslim ritual were killed as their bus crashed in central Iran, state media reported early Wednesday.
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Man Arrested In Mumbai For Duping 21 Umrah Pilgrims
- Wednesday January 4, 2023
- India News | Press Trust of India
A 40-year-old man has been arrested by Mumbai Police for allegedly duping 21 Umrah pilgrims (Muslim pilgrims seeking to visit Mecca) from Bengaluru, an official said on Wednesday.
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Muslim Pilgrims Made To Do Sit-Ups For Offering Roadside Namaz In UP
- Thursday September 15, 2022
- India News | Press Trust of India
Vishva Hindu Parishad activists confronted Muslim pilgrims here on their way to Ajmer, making them apologise for offering namaz by the roadside and then sending them to the local police station.
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Saudi Arabia To Allow One Million Hajj Pilgrims This Year
- Sunday April 10, 2022
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it would permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this year's hajj, a sharp increase after pandemic restrictions forced two years of drastically pared-down pilgrimages.
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Striking Pics Show A Socially-Distanced Hajj In The Shadow Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
- Friday July 31, 2020
- Offbeat | Written by Sanya Jain
Every year, the annual Hajj pilgrimage brings millions of Muslims to the holy city of Mecca. This year, however, the heavy crowds that usually descend upon one of Islam's holiest shrines gave way to a few thousand pilgrims maintaining social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Muslim Pilgrims To Scale Mount Arafat For Peak Of Hajj
- Thursday July 30, 2020
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Muslim pilgrims converged Thursday on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat for the climax of this year's hajj, the smallest in modern times and a sharp contrast to the massive crowds of previous years.
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No Haj For Indians This Year After Saudi Arabia's Request Amidst COVID-19
- Tuesday June 23, 2020
- India News | Press Trust of India
The government has decided that Muslims from India will not travel to Saudi Arabia for Haj 2020 after the kingdom conveyed that pilgrims should not be sent this year in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday.
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US Advocacy Group Urges Imran Khan To Reopen Khokhrapar Border With India
- Wednesday November 27, 2019
- World News | Press Trust of India
Congratulating Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for showing "admirable magnanimity" in the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims, a US-based advocacy group has urged him to now reopen the Khokhrapar-Munabao border with India for millions of Hindu and Muslim devotees.
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Four Bengaluru Tourists Drown In Sea In Nagapattinam
- Tuesday October 29, 2019
- Bangalore News | Press Trust of India
Four tourists from Bengaluru, who were on a visit to the famous Muslim pilgrim centre of Nagore in Nagapattinam district, drowned in the sea in two separate incidents, the police said today.
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In Saudi Arabia, 35 Foreigners Dead As Bus Collides With Excavator: Report
- Thursday October 17, 2019
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday.
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Record 2 Lakh Haj Pilgrims From India In 2019: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Sunday June 9, 2019
- India News | Press Trust of India
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said a record number of two lakh Indian Muslims will go to Haj this year, that too without any subsidy, on more than 500 flights from 21 embarkation points across the country.
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Minister MA Naqvi Offers "Chadar" At Ajmer Shrine On Behalf Of PM Modi
- Wednesday March 6, 2019
- India News | Edited by Richa Taneja
Thousands of pilgrims have gathered at Ajmer in Rajasthan for the 807th Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, revered equally by Hindus and Muslims around the world.
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2 Health Scares At US Airports Tied To Mecca Pilgrims, Say Officials
- Saturday September 8, 2018
- World News | Reuters
Two major health scares at US airports involving inbound flights are related to pilgrims returning from the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which ended in late August, US health officials said on Friday.
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Muslim Pilgrims Flock To Mecca As Haj Begins Today
- Sunday August 19, 2018
- World News | Reuters
Hisham Mostafa briefly forgot the war in Syria and his financial worries as he looked upon Islam's holiest sites for the first time, standing among hundreds of thousands of white-clad Muslims gathered in Mecca ahead of the haj pilgrimage.
- www.ndtv.com
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25 Children Killed After Bus Carrying Religious Pilgrim Crashes In Nigeria
- Tuesday September 17, 2024
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A bus carrying Muslim faithful celebrating the birth of Prophet Mohammed crashed in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, killing at least 25 children, an official told AFP Tuesday.
- www.ndtv.com
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28 Pakistani Pilgrims Killed After Bus Overturns, Catches Fire In Iran
- Wednesday August 21, 2024
- World News | Agence France-Presse
At least 28 Pakistani pilgrims travelling to Iraq for a Shiite Muslim ritual were killed as their bus crashed in central Iran, state media reported early Wednesday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Man Arrested In Mumbai For Duping 21 Umrah Pilgrims
- Wednesday January 4, 2023
- India News | Press Trust of India
A 40-year-old man has been arrested by Mumbai Police for allegedly duping 21 Umrah pilgrims (Muslim pilgrims seeking to visit Mecca) from Bengaluru, an official said on Wednesday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Muslim Pilgrims Made To Do Sit-Ups For Offering Roadside Namaz In UP
- Thursday September 15, 2022
- India News | Press Trust of India
Vishva Hindu Parishad activists confronted Muslim pilgrims here on their way to Ajmer, making them apologise for offering namaz by the roadside and then sending them to the local police station.
- www.ndtv.com
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Saudi Arabia To Allow One Million Hajj Pilgrims This Year
- Sunday April 10, 2022
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it would permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this year's hajj, a sharp increase after pandemic restrictions forced two years of drastically pared-down pilgrimages.
- www.ndtv.com
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Striking Pics Show A Socially-Distanced Hajj In The Shadow Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
- Friday July 31, 2020
- Offbeat | Written by Sanya Jain
Every year, the annual Hajj pilgrimage brings millions of Muslims to the holy city of Mecca. This year, however, the heavy crowds that usually descend upon one of Islam's holiest shrines gave way to a few thousand pilgrims maintaining social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
- www.ndtv.com
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Muslim Pilgrims To Scale Mount Arafat For Peak Of Hajj
- Thursday July 30, 2020
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Muslim pilgrims converged Thursday on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat for the climax of this year's hajj, the smallest in modern times and a sharp contrast to the massive crowds of previous years.
- www.ndtv.com
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No Haj For Indians This Year After Saudi Arabia's Request Amidst COVID-19
- Tuesday June 23, 2020
- India News | Press Trust of India
The government has decided that Muslims from India will not travel to Saudi Arabia for Haj 2020 after the kingdom conveyed that pilgrims should not be sent this year in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday.
- www.ndtv.com
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US Advocacy Group Urges Imran Khan To Reopen Khokhrapar Border With India
- Wednesday November 27, 2019
- World News | Press Trust of India
Congratulating Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for showing "admirable magnanimity" in the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims, a US-based advocacy group has urged him to now reopen the Khokhrapar-Munabao border with India for millions of Hindu and Muslim devotees.
- www.ndtv.com
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Four Bengaluru Tourists Drown In Sea In Nagapattinam
- Tuesday October 29, 2019
- Bangalore News | Press Trust of India
Four tourists from Bengaluru, who were on a visit to the famous Muslim pilgrim centre of Nagore in Nagapattinam district, drowned in the sea in two separate incidents, the police said today.
- www.ndtv.com
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In Saudi Arabia, 35 Foreigners Dead As Bus Collides With Excavator: Report
- Thursday October 17, 2019
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Thirty-five foreigners were killed and four others injured when a bus crashed with another heavy vehicle in the Muslim holy city of Medina, Saudi state media said on Thursday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Record 2 Lakh Haj Pilgrims From India In 2019: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
- Sunday June 9, 2019
- India News | Press Trust of India
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said a record number of two lakh Indian Muslims will go to Haj this year, that too without any subsidy, on more than 500 flights from 21 embarkation points across the country.
- www.ndtv.com
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Minister MA Naqvi Offers "Chadar" At Ajmer Shrine On Behalf Of PM Modi
- Wednesday March 6, 2019
- India News | Edited by Richa Taneja
Thousands of pilgrims have gathered at Ajmer in Rajasthan for the 807th Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, revered equally by Hindus and Muslims around the world.
- www.ndtv.com
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2 Health Scares At US Airports Tied To Mecca Pilgrims, Say Officials
- Saturday September 8, 2018
- World News | Reuters
Two major health scares at US airports involving inbound flights are related to pilgrims returning from the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which ended in late August, US health officials said on Friday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Muslim Pilgrims Flock To Mecca As Haj Begins Today
- Sunday August 19, 2018
- World News | Reuters
Hisham Mostafa briefly forgot the war in Syria and his financial worries as he looked upon Islam's holiest sites for the first time, standing among hundreds of thousands of white-clad Muslims gathered in Mecca ahead of the haj pilgrimage.
- www.ndtv.com