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Haj Committee revives coaching programme for Muslim UPSC aspirants

May 28, 2025 9:59 pm

20% seats reserved for non-Muslim minorities

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Haj panel puts its residential UPSC coaching on hold

July 30, 2024 9:15 am

The institute for Muslim students, which was being run at Haj House, has been “empty” since December 2023, and admission tests were not conducted this year, sources associated with the programme told The Indian Express.

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Bring charges for Haj pilgrims at par with Mumbai embarkment point: Sharad Pawar

May 21, 2023 2:32 pm

The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs has identified 22 airports in India as embarkment points for Haj pilgrims. Aurangabad in Maharashtra is one of the embarkment points selected by the Haj Committee.

Will lock Kejriwal's home if notice to Haj committee not withdrawn: BJP

April 10, 2023 9:04 pm

According to the BJP, the office of the committee had been serving out of the building for the last three decades

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Largest contingent of women without men to perform Haj from India this year: ministry

April 04, 2023 6:11 am

Ministry officials revealed that applications of as many as 4,314 LWMs (Ladies without Mehram) have been approved for Haj from India for 2023.

Delhi Confidential: Paying Back

April 03, 2023 5:12 am

Germany’s reaction to Rahul Gandhi’s recent disqualification as an MP certainly ruffled the feathers of many BJP leaders.

BJP, Congress in cahoots in Delhi Haj Committee? Why AAP is fuming

February 17, 2023 12:29 pm

Arvind Kejriwal’s party asks why a Congress councillor skipped a meeting on Thursday during which BJP’s Kausar Jahan was elected as the head of Haj panel.

Social worker, socialite and Ram Mandir donor: Meet BJP’s Kausar Jahan, Delhi Haj Committee’s new chief

February 17, 2023 11:24 am

A senior BJP leader described Jahan as an “unorthodox and liberal” individual committed to social work. Instead of connecting with the party through student politics, Jahan got associated with her through social work.

BJP’s Kausar Jahan is new Delhi Haj Committee chief; AAP calls it result of 'unholy alliance' between Cong and BJP

February 17, 2023 2:47 am

The AAP has claimed that a BJP leader had been elected to the post because of Delhi L-G V K Saxena’s “dishonesty”.

SC directs States to inform it about constitution of Haj committees

August 12, 2022 5:25 pm

The top court had earlier sought response from the union government on a plea seeking the establishment of Central and State Haj Committee for States according to the provisions of the Haj Committee Act 2002.

Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wanted in the alleged Punjab National Bank fraud case that they allegedly orchestrated through fraudulent Letters of Undertaking in connivance with some bank officials at the Brady House branch in Mumbai.

‘Personal space, adequate light’: India assures Belgium on Mehul Choksi if extradited

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Four months after Mehul Choksi, the fugitive diamond trader wanted in India for the alleged Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan fraud case, was arrested in Belgium, India sent a letter of assurance to the country’s government, saying it will keep him in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail complex, “if extradited”.

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