The fire victims are in stable condition.
Millionaire lawmakers won't accept bribes, JP leader Gasim suggested.
Parliament's rules were revised to allow MPs to propose legislation with monetary implications.
The Jumhooree Party leader was urged to leave the ruling coalition.
The JP has added 12 MPs to its ranks since September's presidential election.
MPs Ilham Ahmed and Hussain Mohamed Latheef are the latest lawmakers to switch parties.
The former actor-comedian plans to contest in an MDP primary to seek re-election on the party's ticket.
Coalition partners disagree on foreign judges and shifting to a parliamentary system.
"Relations in the coalition that the JP joined to bring the Maldives to the path of reform will not be affected because a particular individual joined...
Both President Abdulla Yameen and the new alliance formed between ruling party lawmakers loyal to former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and opposition parties are confident of...
"President Yameen is convinced he can't win a fair election and has delayed #LCE2017 for the 3rd time. A case of lies upon lies. Unacceptable," tweeted...
The commission has requested the finance ministry to distribute MVR23million (US$1.5million) among four of the six political parties
Citing leadership vacuums and complaints over reckless spending and mismanagement, the elections commission has withheld public funding for all political parties
The government demanded that representatives for all-party talks must be endorsed by executive councils after Gayoom appointed his son to represent the PPM. A majority of...
The parliament's public accounts oversight committee has launched an inquiry into corruption cases under investigation since 2008, including the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation corruption...
The High Court issued today a stay order halting the Election Commission’s de-registration of tens of thousands of members from opposition parties.
In an apparent show of strength ahead of a mass opposition protest, the ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives signed up today two MPs and three...
