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Maldives rejects meeting with European diplomats
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 10 (ANI): Embattled Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen has refused to meet with diplomats from the European Union, Germany and the United Kingdom after the state of emergency was imposed in the Maldives last week.
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Maldives cancels football league amid state of emergency
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 10 (ANI): The Maldives has cancelled its annual football league after a state of emergency was imposed by embattled Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen last week.
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McLaren show interest in re-signing Hamilton
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], Feb 10 (ANI): McLaren executive director Zak Brown has said that he would love to have four-time champion Lewis Hamilton back into the team if the Formula One driver does not confirm a new deal with Mercedes.
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Maldives crisis: CJ's lawyers express concerns over arbitrary arrest
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 8 (ANI): The lawyers for Chief Justice of the Maldives Abdulla Saeed have expressed grave concerns over the continued arbitrary detention of the Chief Justice.
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Maldives unrest: Tourism industry badly hit
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 8 (ANI): The ongoing political unrest in the Maldives has virtually destroyed the country's tourism industry with massive cancellations reported by tour groups and airlines.
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Maldives sends special envoys to 'friendly nations' amid crisis
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 8 (ANI): Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Wednesday sent his special envoys to three 'friendly nations'- China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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China expanding its network on Indian Ocean bases
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Feb 7 (ANI): China, in recent times, has been expanding its network to the military bases in the Indian Ocean, in a bid to increase its maritime preparedness and to strengthen its defence infrastructure.
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China's dominance at Hambantota Port worry many
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Hambantota [Sri Lanka], Feb 7 (ANI): As Sri Lanka celebrated 70 years of independence on February 4 from the UK, its people fear that the country faces a new form of colonialism, which is China.
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UN Chief urges Maldives govt. to lift state of emergency
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male (Maldives), Feb. 07 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday expressed serious concern about the situation in Maldives and urged the government to uphold the rule of law in the island nation.
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'All are in clear and present danger in Maldives'
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb. 06 (ANI): One of the 12 MPs disqualified from the Parliament by the Election Commission in the Maldives, Abdulla Sinan, has recently returned back to the Maldives from eight-month exile. His return comes at a time when the country is in a state of emergency after Pre
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Maldivian crisis: Yameen accuses judges of overthrowing him
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb. 06 (ANI): Embattled Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Tuesday accused the judges of plotting to overthrow him, saying that the emergency was imposed to investigate "this plot, this coup" of the Maldivian Supreme Court, which ordered the release of nine jailed opposi
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Maldivian crisis: Opposition calls for release of ex-President, CJ
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 6 (ANI): The opposition on Tuesday demanded the immediate release of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Maldivian Chief Justice Abdulla Sayeed, Justice of the Supreme Court Ali Hameed and pressed for the immediate lifting of the state of emergency.
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