Mecca
23 Jun 2020
India won't be sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year to perform Hajj, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday.
17 Dec 2019
Major tech events and conferences are nothing less than a Mecca for technology enthusiasts and manufacturers of the world to meet and showcase the future of the industry.
30 Mar 2019
Google has released a preview of the schedule for this year's Google I/O event - the Mecca for coders and tech enthusiasts.
24 Feb 2019
Mobile World Congress is surely the Mecca for smartphone aficionados and mobile technology enthusiasts.
08 Nov 2018
A new rule of Saudi Arabia may stop over one million Israeli Muslims from offering prayers at Mecca, Haaretz reported.
20 Aug 2018
More than 2 million Muslims from around the world, including India, yesterday began the annual Hajj pilgrimage at first light in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam's faithful face five times each day during their prayers.
19 Aug 2018
Over 1.28L Indian pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage, officials said yesterday.
19 Jun 2018
For an actor, who was in his prime, to be diagnosed with a type of cancer as rare as Neuroendocrine Tumour would have stirred a lot of emotions.
18 May 2018
Ramzan is here, and millions of Muslims are observing month-long fast worldwide from dawn-till-dusk.
06 May 2018
If Mobile World Congress is a Mecca for mobile technology pundits, Google's I/O is the holy pilgrim for software developers, Android lovers and Google enthusiasts.
11 Feb 2018
For millions of Muslims, Mecca is the holiest place. An estimated 2mn head there annually for Hajj.
10 Oct 2017
In an outrageous statement, Muslim clerics body Jamiat Ulama's Secretary, Gulzar Azmi, mocked gender equality saying, "If you want equality, why don't men and women carry pregnancy for 4.5 months each?"
02 Apr 2017
The Quran dictates that the Haj is obligatory, solely for those who can afford it.
