{"id":300378,"date":"2018-07-15T06:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T06:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300378"},"modified":"2018-07-15T06:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T06:17:46","slug":"first-batch-of-haj-pilgrims-leaves-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/first-batch-of-haj-pilgrims-leaves-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"First Batch of Haj Pilgrims leaves from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300379 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/haj-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/haj-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/haj-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/haj-696x448.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/haj-653x420.jpg 653w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/haj.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>Union Minister of Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday flagged of the first batch of the Haj pilgrims. The first batch of 410 Haj pilgrims had left for Madina\u00a0and Over 1,200 Haj pilgrims for Saudi Arabia in three flights from Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Delhi, 269 from Guwahati, 450 pilgrims from Gaya, 900 from Lucknow and 1,020 pilgrims from Srinagar left for Saudi Arabia for Haj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Minority Affairs Minister, \u201cHaj 2018 has been organised according to the new Haj Policy for ensuring better facilities to the pilgrims and a smooth journey to Haj.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDespite the removal of Haj subsidy and various taxes imposed in Saudi Arabia, pilgrims will not face any additional financial burden,\u201d Naqvi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For the first time after Independence, a record 1,75,025 Muslims from India are going for Haj, while Government will facilitate a total of 1,28,702 pilgrims across India\u00a0through the Haj Committee this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On July 17 pilgrims from Kolkata, on July 20 pilgrims from Varanasi, on July 21 pilgrims from Mangalore, on July 26 pilgrims from Goa and on July 29 pilgrims from Aurangabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Nagpur, will embark for Haj. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On July 30, pilgrims from Ranchi, on August 1 pilgrims from Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cochin, Hyderabad and Jaipur, and on August 3, pilgrims from Bhopal, will embark for Haj.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday flagged of the first batch of the Haj pilgrims. The first batch of 410 Haj pilgrims had left for Madina\u00a0and Over 1,200 Haj pilgrims for Saudi Arabia in three flights from Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. Besides Delhi, 269 from Guwahati, 450 pilgrims from Gaya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[429,3640,260,3639,3638,1782,3637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300380,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300378\/revisions\/300380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}