New Delhi: Mohamed Waheed, the new president of Maldives, will be in India on a five-day first ever official visit beginning Friday when he will discuss with the Indian leadership his atoll nation's future, including possible early elections. After unexpected turn of events in February this year propelled him to the leadership of his country, Waheed will be in India on the invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and just...
08:32 AM, May 11, 2012
Suhasini Haider: Hello and welcome to Worldview with me Suhasini Haider. It's an island in the Indian Ocean that has seen turbulent times and tonight we're talking to two big men locked in battle for the Maldives. In the studio we're pleased to welcome President Mohamed Nasheed, in fact, the ousted President for the moment and we have an exclusive interview with President Mohammed Waheed Hassan as well as we ...
10:42 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed says that he was forced to resign from the country's top post and India's response to the February events was disappointing. In an interview to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haider, he said that India should intervene into the political affairs of Maldives. Here is the transcript of the full interview: Suhasini Haider: Many in India would ask, why should India get involved? Why should India...
01:49 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Male: Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed wants a foreign body to probe the circumstances of the 'coup' that ousted him last month and plunged the country into political crisis. Nasheed told at a news conference here last night that his Maldivian Democratic Party is considering requesting a "foreign organisation" to look into the incidents of February 7 impartially. However, he did not elaborate over which foreign body his party wanted...
01:59 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Male: Over 7,000 supporters of the opposition MDP party of ousted President Mohammed Nasheed on Friday assembled in Male in a show of strength, demanding that the new regime announce a date for polls under an India-brokered deal. Though the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) had initially planned a massive protest rally on Friday against the new regime headed by President Mohammed Waheed Hassan, the party restricted it to a political...
09:18 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Mohamed Nasheed was Maldives' first democratically elected leader who came to power in 2008. ...
07:32 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Track all the developments in Maldives with CNN-IBN's Chief National Correspondent Sumon K Chakrabarti. ...
07:23 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Male: Dejected by the cold shoulder given by India, ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed on Tuesday said that New Delhi has taken his party "for granted" and may lose "leverage" to China under the new regime. Calling himself a great lover of India, Nasheed said unlike the opposition Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) of former dictator Abdul Gayoom, his Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) was pro-India by ideology. "My question to...
07:07 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Male: The United Nations on Monday backed Maldives' new leader's proposal for a national unity government, though the ousted leader is calling for a snap poll to resolve a political crisis. UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco called on all parties to come together "on the principle of inclusiveness and national unity, and reach a consensus on the way forward." Former President Mohamed Nasheed resigned on February 7...
08:08 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Male: Facing coup charges, the Maldives' new regime on Monday said it was open to any independent probe into transfer of power in the country, where the Commonwealth was sending a fact-finding team amid efforts by nations like India to resolve the political crisis. Nearly a week after Mohammed Nasheed, the country's first democratically-elected President, stepped down in what he claimed was a coup d'etat, the 54-nation Commonwealth grouping announced...
05:11 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: It is business as usual for Indian companies and the economic interests of India are safe in the Maldives, wracked by political tumult and violence after the deposition of former president Mohamed Nasheed, diplomats and others said. India is one of the largest investors in the chain of mainly coral islands. Its business and economic relations with the island nation have upped significantly in the past few years....
11:40 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Male: The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, on Friday demanded new elections and vowed mass street protests if the new government did not relent, raising the prospect of a protracted crisis on the Indian Ocean islands famed as a beach paradise. Nasheed was free despite an arrest warrant against him as diplomats including a UN envoy worked to forestall renewed violence after his removal this week, which he...
03:52 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: As the crisis in the Maldives worsens and India gets ready for a military intervention if called upon, Maldivians in Kerala are a worried lot. Just as thousands of Indians call Male home, thousands of Maldivians, too, are settled in Kerala. Maldivians flock to Thiruvananthapuram in thousands every year for medical treatment and education. Mohammad Farhad, First Secretary, Consulate of the Maldives, Thiruvananthapuram, says, "Trivandrum is very close to...
07:42 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Male: The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean islands, said on Wednesday he had been forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between police and angry supporters. Mohamed Nasheed, who in 2008 became the first democratically elected president of the 1,200-island archipelago best known for luxury tourism, resigned on Tuesday after three weeks of opposition protests culminated in a police revolt. Just...
07:41 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Deposed president Mohamed Nasheed said he was forced to resign at gunpoint, demonstrated on the streets along with his party. ...
11:41 PM, Feb 08, 2012
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