While an Indian national can enter Maldives through visa on arrival, business visas were required to cover Sep 23 Presidential polls.

Besides stifling the Opposition, Yameen has decided to adopt an anti-India strategy as a poll plank in the backdrop of his loosening grip o...

MALDIVES-CHINA/DEBT (INTERVIEW, PIX, TV)INTERVIEW-Maldives' Nasheed vows to renegotiate China loans if opposition wins Sept poll

The German envoy to Sri Lanka tweeted that the reason for this move is that despite the apparent lifting of emergency by the Yameen govt, t...

Ministers of the Maldivian government asked India to keep out of the country's internal affairs, just as they "haven't gone into the Kashmi...

The Maldivis' Foreign Ministry said President Yameen's govt takes note of the public statements issued by India that "ignore the facts and ...

It was only a few weeks ago that Maldives foreign minister arrived in India as special envoy for President Yameen, swearing by his ostensib...

India delivered a strong snub to the Maldives government by declining a visit by a special envoy in the middle of the ongoing unrest in the...

President Abdulla Yameen said he was sending envoys to China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to "provide updates on the current situation".

In a late night development, the remaining three judges of the Supreme Court amended an order to release nine high- profile political priso...

After foreign secretary S Jaishankar visited Male last week and Sri Lankan pressure, Yameen had allowed his predecessor to travel to UK for...

Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, arrested on charges of plotting to assassinate President Abdullah Yameen, has a history of criminal ac...

"VP Adeeb under arrest and held in Dhoonidhoo Detention (prison island)," Umar Naseer said on Twitter. "Charges: high treason."

The US and others have strongly criticized his trial with a UN panel ruling last month that Nasheed's jailing was illegal and that he shoul...

Diplomatic sources suggested that the Yameen should establish independence, transparency, consistency and accessibility of the country’s ju...

ET had reported earlier this week that the proposed trip was examined due to the prevailing political situation there.

President Yameen lost confidence of his own coalition partners and people at large within months of coming to power as he tried to consolid...