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A total of 257 Haj pilgrims from Odisha boarded their flight for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca on Wednesday. The pilgrims boarded their flight from Kolkata airport to Saudi Arabia in the presence of their relatives and officials from the state Haj committee, among others.
With this, a total of 390 pilgrims from Odisha have left for Haj this year till now, informed Executive Officer of the Haj committee, Sayed Mohammed Aqdas. He informed that the rest of the pilgrims boarded their flights to Saudi Arabia in six groups from different cities.
Some of them took flights from Bengaluru, while others left from Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, re...