The political crisis continues in Maldives, taking India unawares. Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed will be produced in court on Wednesday after he was arrested by the police after a local court issued a warrant. ...
08:49 AM, Mar 06, 2013
A day after Maldives former president Mohamed Nasheed walked out of the Indian High Commission in, the Maldivian government on Sunday made it clear that there was no deal with India and that the case against him would continue as normal. ...
05:12 PM, Feb 24, 2013
With less than 24 hours left for Mohamed Nasheed to be produced by police before a Court in Male, India today said it would be the "happiest" if the situation arising out of ex-Maldives President taking refuge in its Mission for the seventh day in a row is resolved. Nasheed, who is holed up in the Indian High Commission to evade an arrest warrant, is scheduled to be presented before...
10:44 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Maldives' state-run MACL on Friday night took over the operations of the Male international airport from GMR after the Indian infrastructure major lost a week-long legal battle over the "unilateral" termination of its $ 511 million airport modernisation contract. ...
12:46 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Male: Seeking to mollify New Delhi after intemperate anti-India remarks by a key presidential aide, Maldives has given profound apology as a USD 514-million airport project carried out by Indian company GMR became a target of political football in Male. Immediately after the remarks were made by Abbas Adil Riza at a rally in Male, Maldives President Mohamed Waheed told the Indian High Commissioner that he will take steps to...
05:52 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Assuring strong support, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday hoped all shades of political opinion in Maldives would get together to find a way forward as President Mohamed Waheed expressed to him his deep commitment to democracy and conduct of elections. Waheed, who is on his first foreign visit since assuming power in a tumultuous political transition in February, held wide-ranging talks with Singh during which he briefed...
05:17 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed arrived in New Delhi on Friday on a five-day official visit, his first to any country since he seized power from Mohamed Nasheed three weeks ago. Waheed was Nasheed's vice president and took charge of the atoll nation following a police mutiny, sparking political unrest. In Delhi, Waheed will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss Maldives' future, possible early elections and India's support...
08:39 PM, May 11, 2012
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
Male: After two tumultuous sittings marred by protests by the opposition MDP, Maldives' parliament commenced its first session of the year on Monday, indicating that the new government may finally be getting on with work. Almost two months after Maldives' first democratically elected president c was overthrown in what he called was a coup, the parliamentary session was held smoothly and some important bills in the pipeline were debated. The...
04:31 PM, Apr 02, 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
Male: President Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan's brother, the Deputy High Commissioner of the Maldives to the UK, has announced his resignation and called for his brother to follow suit. Naushad Hassan said, "He could not support a regime that had taken over through a coup." Mohammed Waheed Hassan after the coup expanded his cabinet. The expansion includes two key players from former dictator Gayoom's administration. Former President Mohamed Nasheed is...
07:53 AM, Feb 16, 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: 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
Male: Maldives new President Mohamed Waheed Hassan is likely to announce his "national unity" cabinet soon and has ordered a probe into the recent events that unfolded in this archipelago nation. "The cabinet is likely to be announced in two or three days," a senior Maldivian government official said. Waheed called for chaos on the streets to stop and to restore peace and calm. "The way of responsible leaders is...
07:16 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Male: The United States and the United Kingdom stepped in to try and diffuse the Maldives political crisis on Saturday. The UK government said the new Maldives government must prove its legitimacy first. US Assistant Secretary Robert Blake also arrived in the island country for talks with the new president. Blake is also in Male to try and diffuse the crisis Blake met the new president Mohamed Waheed and former...
06:37 PM, Feb 11, 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
New Delhi: India has pledged support to new Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed who spoke with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on telephone on Wednesday and sought a meeting with him, a day after the dramatic regime change in the archipelago nation. "Waheed spoke to Manmohan Singh to reaffirm the close ties between the two countries. (He) said he looked forward to an early opportunity of meeting the prime minister," the Prime...
04:51 PM, Feb 08, 2012
