Mecca, also spelled Makkah, is a city in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia. 70 km inland from Jeddah, in a narrow valley 277 m above sea level, 340 kilometres south of Medina, its population in 2012 was 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the Ḥajj, held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah. Read More
Lt. General Kamal Repswal (Chief of Staff, HQ Eastern Command, SM, VSM) has said the organisers are planning to include more teams in the Durand Cup from next year to promote football in the country. ...
Five Indian Super League (ISL) franchises and three I-League teams will be among 16-teams vying for the iconic Durand Cup football tournament, to be played in and around Kolkata between September 5-October 3, 2021. ...
Udupi (Karnataka), Aug 19 Thirty-four-year-old Harish Bangera, an air-conditioning technician reunited with his family on Wednesday after spending ... ...
A man who was lodged in a Saudi Arabia prison on charges of blasphemy and for posting derogatory messages about Mecca and the king of Saudi Arabia on Facebook returned to India after 20 months. ...
In a significant stride towards women empowerment, dozens of female soldiers have become a part of the security services that monitor pilgrims in Mecca and Medina, the birthplaces of Islam. ...
