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Maldives court frees jailed ex-president Abdulla Yameen, orders fresh trial

Maldives' former president Abdulla Yameen at a criminal court in Male. (AFP / File)
Updated on Apr 18, 2024 09:20 pm IST

Former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen to appeal 11-year jail term

Abdulla Yameen: Abdulla Yameen is seen.
Published on Dec 26, 2022 01:30 pm IST

Maldives court finds former president Abdulla Yameen guilty of corruption

Abdulla Yameen: Abdulla Yameen is seen.
Updated on Dec 25, 2022 04:44 pm IST

India signs key financial intelligence agreement with Maldives

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Maldivian counterpart Abdulla Shahid at the India-Maldives Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) in Hyderabad House New Delhi.
Updated on Dec 14, 2019 12:37 am IST

Mohamed Nasheed’s return will strengthen Maldivian democracy

Maldives' former President Mohamed Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has won more than two-thirds of the seats in the 87-member Parliament
Updated on Apr 08, 2019 09:27 pm IST

Maldives court orders arrest of former president Abdulla Yameen

A Maldives court on Monday ordered the arrest and detention of former strongman president Abdulla Yameen on money laundering charges.
Updated on Feb 18, 2019 05:49 pm IST

Burdened by Chinese debt, Maldives gets $1.4bn aid from India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Published on Dec 17, 2018 11:06 pm IST

Tried to play India against China as a ‘puppet master’: Maldives foreign minister on Ex-president Yameen

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj meets with her Maldives counterpart Abdulla Shahid in New Delhi.
Updated on Nov 27, 2018 12:24 am IST

Maldives’ top court clears former president Nasheed of terror conviction

Maldives former President Mohamed Nasheed was elected as the country’s head in its first-ever democratic poll in 2008, ousting an authoritarian president who had ruled the honeymoon islands for 30 years.
Updated on Nov 26, 2018 07:15 pm IST

The Maldives’ new regime is an opportunity for India to regain its lost ground

India will also have to take the lead in working with the Maldives to strengthen both Mr Solih’s government and democratic institutions
Updated on Nov 21, 2018 08:15 am IST

Maldives to pull out of ‘one-sided’ China trade deal: Report

China's President Xi Jinping
Updated on Nov 20, 2018 05:34 pm IST

PM Modi arrives in Maldives to attend president-elect Solih’s swearing-in ceremony

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Maldives on Saturday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Updated on Nov 17, 2018 05:09 pm IST

PM Narendra Modi heads to Maldives as island shifts toward India from China

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his first-ever visit to the Maldives for the swearing-in of its new president, signaling a shift in the island nation toward India and away from China.
Updated on Nov 17, 2018 12:56 pm IST

US urges Maldives’ Abdulla Yameen to accept election results

Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen speaks as he gives a statement at President office in Male, Maldives.
Updated on Oct 12, 2018 12:09 am IST

Maldives: India should not rest on its oars

Maldivian president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih arrives at an event with supporters in Male, Maldives, September 24, 2018
Updated on Oct 09, 2018 11:06 am IST

Outgoing Maldives president ‘received $1.5 million’: Reports

The outgoing strongman president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, faced allegations Tuesday that he received nearly $1.5 million in illicit payments just before his surprise election defeat last month.
Updated on Oct 02, 2018 08:50 pm IST

Maldives president-elect Solih invites PM Narendra Modi to swearing-in ceremony: Report

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party’s candidate, emerged victorious over incumbent president Abdulla Yameen in the election held on September 23. He will be sworn in on November 17.
Updated on Sept 27, 2018 07:52 pm IST

The Maldives poll results are an opportunity for India to gain lost ground

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, centre, jumps as he walks in a street march with supporters in Male, September 22
Updated on Sept 26, 2018 04:06 pm IST

Why Abdulla Yameen’s ouster is good news for India

The electoral defeat of Abdulla Yameen in Maldives on Monday brought a sigh of relief for India. For, all that could have gone wrong between two countries, had gone wrong under Yameen’s presidency.
Updated on Sept 25, 2018 02:35 am IST

India hails ‘triumph of democracy’ in Maldives election result

Maldivian president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih arrives at an event with supporters in Male, Maldives on September 24, 2018.
Published on Sept 25, 2018 12:02 am IST

The Maldives result can help counter China’s influence on the Indian Ocean

Maldives strongman Abdulla Yameen’s hopes for a second presidential term have been dashed with the victory of the candidate of the combined opposition, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (in photo)
Updated on Sept 24, 2018 07:20 pm IST

‘I accept the result’: Maldives president Abdulla Yameen concedes election defeat

Maldives president Abdulla Yameen attends a signing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Updated on Sept 24, 2018 02:30 pm IST

Pro-China Maldives president Yameen loses election, India welcomes result

Maldivian joint opposition presidential candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih speaks to the media at the end of the presidential election day in Male, Maldives.
Updated on Sept 24, 2018 11:26 am IST

Maldives opposition candidate says he has won presidential election

Maldivian joint opposition presidential candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih speaks to the media at the end of the presidential election day in Male, Maldives September 23, 2018.
Updated on Sept 24, 2018 01:41 am IST

US threatens Maldives with sanctions if it fails to hold fair elections

Maldives' main opposition leader and presidential candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (C) and Maldives' self-imposed exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed (2nd R) attend a meeting at Mount Lavinia, a suburb of Colombo, on August 27, 2018.
Published on Sept 08, 2018 03:11 pm IST

India must stay the course in Maldives

India’s foreign minister Sushma Swaraj (L) with Maldives' President Abdulla Yameen. Tactful handling of the India-Maldives relationship is required as the fate of some India-backed projects and Indian workers in the island nation hangs in the balance.
Updated on Aug 30, 2018 07:18 pm IST

Maldives wants to rid itself of excessive Indian influence: Chinese media

Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj with Maldives' president Abdulla Yameen in Male, Maldives in October 2015. The Maldives asking India to take back its military helicopters and personnel deployed there reflects the country’s “increasing desire to rid itself of the excessive Indian influence”, Chinese state media said.
Published on Aug 13, 2018 05:06 pm IST

Withdraw your military choppers, China-backed Maldives govt tells India

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen shakes the hand of China's President Xi Jinping after a signing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Updated on Aug 10, 2018 07:22 pm IST

Govt says reports of India reducing exports to Maldives ‘misleading’

MEA said exports were consistent with the trade agreement between India and Maldives.
Published on Jun 25, 2018 01:41 pm IST