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"We will sense even if we cannot see"

She co-founded an NGO after being told blind people couldn't run one.

2 hours ago

Ice ages, not volcanoes: how the Maldives really formed

Darwin's 1842 theory is elegant. Drill cores tell a different story.

24 hours ago

Column: by Saif Fathih

Trouble for Muizzu – provided MDP keeps it together

A decisive win followed by a familiar unravelling.

13 Apr, 17:00

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Ice ages, not volcanoes: how the Maldives really formed

Darwin's 1842 theory is elegant. Drill cores tell a different story.

24 hours ago

Column: by Saif Fathih

Trouble for Muizzu – provided MDP keeps it together

A decisive win followed by a familiar unravelling.

13 Apr, 17:00

A Majlis e-petition to ban BDS-listed products in the Maldives

Consumer boycotts are incomplete without state-level sanctions.

12 Apr, 13:11

A nature house in Villingili, before the bridge changes everything

Veshige wants to reconnect a generation with nature.

11 Apr, 10:01

MTCC's MVR 13 million taxi app: closed bids, family ties, and leaked ID cards

Developers unravelled the app's failures within hours of its launch.

09 Apr, 16:51

Death in SAMPA: propeller guards mandated, none installed

A year of failed enforcement in South Ari's largest marine protected area.

08 Apr, 17:15

A Majlis e-petition to ban BDS-listed products in the Maldives

Consumer boycotts are incomplete without state-level sanctions.

12 Apr, 13:11

A nature house in Villingili, before the bridge changes everything

Veshige wants to reconnect a generation with nature.

11 Apr, 10:01

MTCC's MVR 13 million taxi app: closed bids, family ties, and leaked ID cards

Developers unravelled the app's failures within hours of its launch.

09 Apr, 16:51

Death in SAMPA: propeller guards mandated, none installed

A year of failed enforcement in South Ari's largest marine protected area.

08 Apr, 17:15

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Referendum, record turnout, and a fractured opposition: key takeaways from the April 4 elections

07 Apr, 16:54

Referendum defeated, cities lost: voters deliver mid-term rebuke to Muizzu

05 Apr, 11:53

Election day: 43-degree heat, long queues and secrecy dispute mark triple-ballot vote

04 Apr, 20:21

Election primer: three ballots, one voting day, and a wartime spending spree

03 Apr, 17:00

Shark feeding is illegal in the Maldives. It shouldn't be Fuvahmulah's business model.

25 Mar, 16:55

Hoarafushi's seagrass meadow is teeming with life. The council wants to bury it.

10 Mar, 14:52

Younger than the pyramids: teaching students how the Maldives really formed

04 Mar, 14:24

President champions climate adaptation abroad as dredgers blanket atoll in sediment

12 Feb, 17:15

"A linked chain": how Faathun helped write the Maldives' first disability plan

31 Mar, 17:18

Maldives celebrates Eid under shadow of war

22 Mar, 15:59

Trapped by design: Dhigurah fire exposes migrant worker housing crisis

19 Mar, 19:18

Wilson the castaway cat: how a ginger tom was rescued from a desert island

12 Mar, 15:06

War costs mount but austerity plan stays under wraps until after Saturday's vote

30 Mar, 16:58

Half a gas cylinder, double the diesel price: the oil shock hits Maldives

17 Mar, 17:25

Asia declares emergency. Maldives says it won't run out of oil.

11 Mar, 17:52

Middle East war leaves Maldives exposed on every front

02 Mar, 12:29

The Chagos dispute explained: colonial borders, displaced people, and a small nation defying international law

10 Feb, 17:26

The US$ 500 million reckoning in April: what is a sukuk and why does it matter?

28 Jan, 16:21

The dry season haze: what you need to know

20 Jan, 16:24

"A good start, not a solution": MIFCO begins buying yellowfin tuna after protests

14 Jan, 17:29

Arts And Culture

In the midst of a thought: revisiting The Bird and the Flying Fish

14 Feb, 18:12

Fiction: On the virtues of route 8

07 Feb, 16:53

To the makers of Dhoadhi – give them their flowers

31 Jan, 14:44

After 16 years, 1984 is back

24 Jan, 16:33

Timeline Series

A US$ 90 million trail that went nowhere: the MMPRC scandal's unresolved legacy

29 Jun 2025, 16:55

UK Chagos handover sinks Maldives hopes of reclaiming southern waters

02 Jun 2025, 19:29

Eight years and no justice: the murder of Yameen Rasheed

12 May 2025, 16:00

Nasheed bombing trial remains stalled four years after failed assassination

06 May 2025, 19:03

More stories

MACL rot, airfare hike and convict release

14 Apr, 02:55

Sinan unseated, SOE resignations and Hulhumalé blackout

13 Apr, 02:18

MDP détente, Meedhoo recount and growth forecast

12 Apr, 03:34

SOE austerity, Feeali fire and pallet survivor

10 Apr, 07:29

MDP infighting, ambassador reinstatement and home loans

09 Apr, 08:59

Gas supplies, MDP dismissals and Fuvahmulah blackout

08 Apr, 08:47

From the archive

Today in history

Foreign freeholds amendment repealed from constitution

15 Apr 2019

Legal changes proposed to reform independent bodies

15 Apr 2019

Behind the numbers: Maldives parliamentary elections

15 Apr 2019

Maldives prays for rain

15 Apr 2019

Hundreds of applications for SME loan scheme

15 Apr 2018

Police probe death threat against woman for not wearing hijab

15 Apr 2018

Apostasy, foreign fighters and religious freedom in the Maldives: a policy paper

15 Apr 2018

Will not allow religious freedom in Maldives, says defence minister

15 Apr 2018

Maldivians urged to ‘call out’ street harassment

15 Apr 2018

Indian foreign secretary concludes visit

15 Apr 2017

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