Dhaka, Sept 30 (UNB) – The government has planned to increase the number of hajj pilgrims under government management to 50 percent from the next year, said State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on Monday.

Dhaka, Aug 17 (UNB) – The first return Hajj flight arrived at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday. 

Mecca, Aug 10 (AP/UNB) — More than 2 million pilgrims were gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years ago.