Take the family to Kurumba in the Maldives and the memories will last years longer than the footprints left on the North Male lagoon. There’s the setting, cast in the Indian Ocean like a stone in an emerald necklace. There’s the sea, with its shades of blue that have yet […]

Maldives is playing a different card and this may annoy neighboring country India. The government has asked Indian counterpart to withdraw military helicopters and personnel following expiry of an agreement made between the two nations. The current Abdulla Yameen’s government in the Indian Ocean island chain is backed by China […]

Amid immense political crisis the Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has decided to reach out to friendly countries like China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, but close neighboring nation India is not included. The president’s office announced its envoys will visit the countries and “provide updates on the current situation”. Just ahead […]

Government of Maldives will not be abiding the order of Supreme Court to release jailed opposition leaders and will be resisting attempts to impeach impeach President Abdulla Yameen, said attorney general Sunday. The Apex Court’s order came last week and Yameen has been disobeying the verdict to release jailed opposition […]

Former Maldives vice president Ahmed Adeeb has been sentenced for 15 years jail after convicted for plotting to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen. The troubled island nation has been rocked by political turmoil in recent years and almost all the rivals of the president are either put in jail or are […]