A Hubballi resident, Abdul Ghani Shirahatti, died in a Saudi Arabia bus crash involving pilgrims on November 17.
Dozens of Indian Muslims are reported to have been killed as a bus carrying them between pilgrimage sites in Saudi Arabia ...
A 24-year-old man from Hyderabad is the sole survivor of the devastating bus crash on the Mecca-Medina highway.
This special report covers a tragic bus accident near Medina, Saudi Arabia, where 42 Indian Umrah pilgrims, many from ...
The passengers, who were participating in the Umrah pilgrimage, were traveling between the two holiest cities in Islam, ...
Opinion

Pilgrimage perils

The tragic bus accident near Medina that claimed the lives of 45 Indian pilgrims from Telangana is not just an isolated incident on a foreign roadway.
Air Arabia announced yesterday that it will introduce a twice-weekly service to the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia from Sharjah, UAE on September 1. The carrier will fly on Tuesdays and Saturdays, ...
This is the fourth part in series about travels in Saudi Arabia, along the line of the Hejaz railway. My 10:00 bus to Medina—the beginning of a nine-hour ride across the desert—departed on time. I had ...
A 23-year-old man survived a horrific bus accident in Saudi Arabia that claimed the lives of his parents and grandfather. The ...
In June 2025, footage on TikTok and YouTube showed lines of large mechanized umbrellas opening above pedestrians and giving them shade. The captions for these videos stated these were high-tech ...