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The government has launched a trilingual website www.haj.gov.in for Haj Matters on January 2, 2017 in Hindi, Urdu and English for Haj online applications, which has received wide attention. Besides giving giving information about the Haj Department of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, it provides information on Haj Pilgrimage, rules and regulations. The Haj affairs are being looked after by ...

The country’s apex court has directed the government to phase out subsidy paid to Muslims to make a Haj visit in a decade and use the amount for social and educational development of the community. Currently, the government foots Rs. 38,000 per person and last year the amount was at Rs 685 crore for about 1.25 lakh pilgrims. A Supreme ...

To be precise, double-talk, greed, corruption and an unmanageable economy have landed India on par with a country like Tunisia, which had undergone political upheaval recently and landed itself in Negative sovereign rating. Double talk by the government, assuring the likes of G-7 or G-20 that its subsidies are being offset by a hike in oil price but indeed hiking ...

The government of India has announced Haj 2011 Operations, as is the case every year. It includes: i) Number of Haj Pilgrims to be covered under the government subsidy this year will be 1,25,000. ii) Fare to be charged from each of the pilgrims for Haj 2011 is Rs.16,000. iii) Haj flights would be operated from 21 embarkation points during ...