India to enter into bilateral Rupee swap agreements with SAARC countries: RBIThe Reserve Bank of India, in collaboration with the Indian government, has unveiled a revised framework on currency swap arrangements with...
27 Jun, 2024, 05.19 PM IST
With neighbourhood leaders as guests, India focuses on Indian ocean regionIndia is inviting heads of state and government from Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, and the Seychelles to the swearing-in ceremony of the ...
09 Jun, 2024, 05.30 AM IST
Maldives and India look to move forward, give direction to tiesMaldives foreign minister Moosa Zameer has expressed the Muizzu government's willingness to work with India, despite external affairs minis...
09 May, 2024, 11.42 PM IST
Maldivian President Muizzu is choosing China over India: What is at play?Many believe that the controversy was triggered by PM Modi's bid to promote Lakshadweep as an alternative tourist destination to the Maldiv...
11 Jan, 2024, 04.43 PM IST
Derogatory remarks against PM Modi: 3 Maldives ministers suspended indefinitely with payIndia-Maldives row: Three deputy youth ministers in the Maldives, Mariyam Shiuna, Mahzoom Majid, and Malsha Shareef, have been suspended in...
11 Jan, 2024, 07.52 AM IST
Maldives tourism body condemns derogatory comments against PM Modi, calls India 'closest neighbour'The Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) has condemned derogatory remarks made by officials in the Maldives against Prime Minist...
09 Jan, 2024, 01.28 PM IST
Indian military presence in Maldives is myth created by Muizzu & YameenIn February 2021, India had extended a $50 million line of credit to the Maldives for defence projects. It also signed a deal to construct ...
20 Oct, 2023, 10.39 PM IST
Maldives election could be key for China-India rivalryThe upcoming presidential election in the Maldives could turn out to be important in determining whether China or India will gain more infl...
06 Sep, 2023, 01.49 PM IST
RBI revises framework on currency swap arrangement for SAARC nationsThe new framework is valid from November 14, 2019 to November 13, 2022.
26 Nov, 2019, 05.23 PM IST
Maldives supports India in standoff with China, says ex-president Mohamed NasheedNasheed also did not mince words on the nature of Chinese loans for infrastructure projects that might push his country to a debt trap.
13 Jul, 2018, 10.54 AM IST
Yameen govt cites Kashmir, tells India to back offMinisters of the Maldivian government asked India to keep out of the country's internal affairs, just as they "haven't gone into the Kashmi...
14 Mar, 2018, 10.48 AM IST
India says it expects no extension of emergency in MaldivesPresident Abdulla Yameen had declared a state of emergency in Maldives on February 5, 2018, and it comes to an end this evening.
20 Feb, 2018, 06.18 PM IST
Maldives crises: Amid call for help, Mohamed Nasheed meets Defence Minister Nirmala SitharamanIndia had earlier put its special forces on standby for any eventuality in Maldives including the evacuation of its own citizens if violenc...
19 Feb, 2018, 11.02 PM IST
India should not remain mute spectator: Yashwant Sinha on Maldives crisisSinha said the Indian government has diplomatic options, non-diplomatic options and it must exercise those in order to ensure India's secur...
11 Feb, 2018, 06.50 PM IST
Indian journalist and another scribe ordered to leave MaldivesThe two journalists, Indian national Money Sharma and British national of Indian-origin Atish Ravi Patel, were handed over to immigration a...
10 Feb, 2018, 05.05 PM IST
Indian journalist among two scribes held in MaldivesThe action against the two scribes came as a privately-owned TV station went off the air, citing threats during the country's current state...
09 Feb, 2018, 08.38 PM IST
RBI signs $400 million currency swap pact with Sri LankaThe agreement, which will be valid for three years, is expected to further economic co-operation between the two countries.
25 Mar, 2015, 03.21 PM IST