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Maldives Elections: Polling closes after `extraordinary turnout`
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 23 (ANI): The deadline for the polling in the Maldivian Presidential election closed on Sunday at 7 PM (local time) after the election commission had earlier extended the deadline by three hours owing to a huge voter turnout.
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Voting begins in high-stakes Maldives elections
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 23 (ANI): Voting officially began in the Maldives amid fear of rigging and violence by the country's opposition parties and international monitor groups to sway the results in favour of incumbent President Abdulla Yameen.
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European Parliamentarians express concern over credible, transparent polls
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Sept 22 (ANI): Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from seven different parties have shown concern over the failure of President Abdulla Yameen's government in Maldives to engage with the Opposition leaders for credible, transparent and inclusive Presidential ele
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No agenda finalized for meeting between EAM and Pak FM: MEA
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 20 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday informed that no agenda has been set for the meeting between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi which will take place on the sidelines of United Nations Genera
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Situation in Maldives far worse than imagined: SADF report
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 19 (ANI): A South Asian Democracy Forum (SADF) report containing observations of three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), accompanied by two officials of the European Economic and Social Committee, confirmed that the situation in the Maldives is far worse than im
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Exiled Nasheed calls on EU for fair Maldivian elections
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Sep 15 (ANI): Former Maldivian president, Mohamed Nasheed visited Brussels and Strasbourg and called on the European Union to issue a populated sanctions list and support a 'free and fair Presidential Election' in the island nation, which is scheduled for September 23.
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Ground staff neglect behind AI flight landing at under-construction runway
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 14 (ANI): An Air India flight AI 263 which landed wrongly on an under-construction runway at the Male airport recently, could have been averted had the airport ground staff communicated with the pilots, said Thayyib Ibu Faisal of Amnesty International's Prisoner of Consc
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Criticising government costing broadcasters in Maldives
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives] September 14 (ANI): With Maldives inching closer to polls, airing content criticising the incumbent government helmed by President Yameen Abdul Gayoom is costing the broadcasters of the nation, says South Asia director of Human Rights Watch, Meenakshi Ganguly.
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RSF asks Maldives' presidential candidates to assure press freedom
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 13 (ANI): Days after the Maldives Broadcasting Commission slapped a hefty fine on a TV channel for allegedly defaming the President and threatening national security, the Press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF or Reporters Sans Frontieres) sought a firm undertaki
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Japanese Coast Guard delegation visits India to deepen maritime relation
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Sep 10 (ANI): An eight-member Japanese Coast Guard delegation on Monday visited the Coast Guard Regional Headquarters at Mumbai's Worli with an aim to strengthen ties between the Coast Guards of two maritime countries for better coordination, and joint operation
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Maldives situation "worse than previously understood"
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Sep 09 (ANI): A report on the current political situation in the Maldives, recently published by a European think tank, has deemed the political situation in the Island Nation under President Abdulla Yameen as "worse than had been previously understood and continues to de
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Plane lands at under construction runway in Male airport
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 7 (ANI): An Air India plane mistakenly landed at a non-operational and under construction runway at the Male Velana International Airport in the Maldives on Friday.
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