External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reached Maldives on Wednesday on his fourth visit to the island country after assuming office in 2019. “Delighted to arrive in Maldives for my fourth visit as External Affairs Minister. Thank FM @abdulla_shahid for the warm welcome. The synergies of India’s Neighborhood First and Maldives’ […]
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Maldives thanks India for USD 100 million aid, says “good friendship reaping benefits”
Maldives on Tuesday expressed gratitude and thanked India for the financial assistance of USD 100 Million to overcome economic challenges and said that it is the good friendship between the two countries which is reaping benefits and creating history. “We (India-Maldives) have good friendship that’s reaping benefits, support each other […]
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, wife used military aircraft to reach Maldives
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife along with two bodyguards travelled to the Maldives after full approval of the country’s Defense Ministry, Sri Lanka officials confirmed on Wednesday. “According to the request of the Government in accordance with the powers vested in an Executive President in the Constitution of Sri […]
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Attack on International Yoga Day event in Maldives
Police in the Maldives used tear gas and pepper spray to control a crowd of people who disrupted a yoga event organised by the Indian High Commission, or embassy, in the capital Male on Tuesday morning, an organiser said. The crowd stormed a stadium where more than 150 people, including […]
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Anti-India campaign in the Maldives possibly sponsored by China: Report
The ‘India Out’ campaign in the Maldives being led by former President Abdulla Yameen and his supporters might have to do with Yameen’s affinity with China, a media report said. India and Maldives signed an agreement in February 2021 under which India was to develop the harbour of the Maldives […]
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Chinese Foreign Minister’s visit to Maldives, Sri Lanka generates fears of deeper debt-trap: Report
Amid the continuous rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant across the world, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Maldives and Sri Lanka but failed to make gains as nationalist Sri Lankans and Maldivians felt that their sovereignty is being incrementally eroded by China through coercive use of debt-trap diplomacy, said a European-based think tank. Sri Lankans, especially, seemed apprehensive […]
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Bangladesh, Maldives exchange key agreements after talks
Four important agreements were exchanged on Thursday between Maldives and Bangladesh during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ongoing state visit to the island nation. Apart from the agreement exchange, a symbolic handover of keys to military vehicles donated by Bangladesh to Maldives took place between Maldives’ Chief of Defence Force, Major General […]
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Mohammed bin Rashid meets with President of Maldives at country’s pavilion in Expo 2020
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, today visited the pavilions of Maldives, Egypt, Palestine, Switzerland and Emirates Airline at Expo 2020 Dubai. He was accompanied by Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Expo 2020 Dubai Higher Committee; Sheikh […]
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Plan to develop Lakshadweep like Maldives to benefit people: Lakshadweep Collector
Lakshadweep Collector S Asker Ali on Friday defended the laws imposed by Administrator Praful Khoda Patel and said that these administrative decisions will help the union territory to develop like Maldives thereby benefiting local residents. While speaking to media persons on Thursday, Ali said that the Island Management Plan regarding island […]