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Maldives Elections: Polling closes after `extraordinary turnout`
Updated : 7 years, 8 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, 8 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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Situation in Maldives far worse than imagined: SADF report
Updated : 7 years, 8 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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Ground staff neglect behind AI flight landing at under-construction runway
Updated : 7 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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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Maldives relapsing back to a dictatorship
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], August 30 (ANI): Uncertainty continues to persist in Maldives, the Indian Ocean Island, as there are high assumptions of not having free and fair Presidential polls scheduled to be held on 23rd of next month.
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Maldives' ex-president Gayoom's health deteriorates
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], August 22 (ANI): The health of 83-year-old former Maldivian president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who is lodged in Maafushi Prison, is getting deteriorated.
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Kerala floods: Maldives stands in solidarity with India
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Male` [Maldives], August 20 (ANI): The Government of Maldives on Monday extended help to India by donating USD 50,000 for the ongoing rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit southern state of Kerala.
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Ex-Maldives' president Gayoom sentenced to 19-month jail term
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], June 13 (ANI): Former Maldives' President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Wednesday was sentenced to nineteen months of imprisonment after being found guilty of "obstructing justice" by not cooperating with the police investigation.
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Maldives: Amnesty International declares Joint Opposition spokesperson Pri
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Male [Maldives], May 11 (ANI): Amnesty International on Friday called on the Maldivian government to release Galolhu-South constituency Member of Parliament and Joint Opposition spokesperson Ahmed Mahloof and declared him a Prisoner of Conscience (PoC).
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Maldivian President lifts emergency after 45 days
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Mar 22 (ANI): Maldives President Abdulla Yameen on Thursday lifted a 45-day state of emergency which had outlawed protests amid a political crisis in the country.
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