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Mahzoom: Malé deserves better

"Discussion alone has not produced solutions, and it never will."

11 hours ago

Episode 15: The referendum on combining elections

MDP MP Meekail on rejecting concurrent elections.

21 Feb, 14:00

Column: by Saif Fathih

Broken by design: Malé City Council has stopped functioning

The PNC's 14-seat supermajority cannot find 10 members for a meeting.

19 Feb, 16:00

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News in brief from Friday and Saturday, February 20 and 21.

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Episode 15: The referendum on combining elections

MDP MP Meekail on rejecting concurrent elections.

21 Feb, 14:00

Column: by Saif Fathih

Broken by design: Malé City Council has stopped functioning

The PNC's 14-seat supermajority cannot find 10 members for a meeting.

19 Feb, 16:00

Ramadan cheat sheet: schedules, services and prices

A guide to modified routines for the fasting month.

18 Feb, 12:37

RTI data reveals scale of student payment problems ministry says it cannot fully count

Over 100 complaints logged, but no figures on actual payment delays.

17 Feb, 16:03

Dr Hassan Hameed on his life's work: an English-Dhivehi dictionary eight years in the making

"Language can limit what can be thought and expressed."

16 Feb, 15:00

President champions climate adaptation abroad as dredgers blanket atoll in sediment

Dive sites abandoned, bait grounds destroyed as plume engulfs Malé atoll.

12 Feb, 17:15

Ramadan cheat sheet: schedules, services and prices

A guide to modified routines for the fasting month.

18 Feb, 12:37

RTI data reveals scale of student payment problems ministry says it cannot fully count

Over 100 complaints logged, but no figures on actual payment delays.

17 Feb, 16:03

Dr Hassan Hameed on his life's work: an English-Dhivehi dictionary eight years in the making

"Language can limit what can be thought and expressed."

16 Feb, 15:00

President champions climate adaptation abroad as dredgers blanket atoll in sediment

Dive sites abandoned, bait grounds destroyed as plume engulfs Malé atoll.

12 Feb, 17:15

Maldives Independent

Year in Review

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Watchdog questions corruption score as Maldives stagnates on annual index

11 Feb, 13:14

From resort dividends to an open prison: everything Muizzu pledged in his three-hour address

09 Feb, 19:40

Maldives deploys military after Muizzu rejects maritime boundary with Mauritius

05 Feb, 20:23

Resort deals, campaign help, financial advice: Epstein's deep ties to ex-Maldives president

01 Feb, 21:21

"We simply have to keep going": Maldives' first Magsaysay laureate on fighting an existential timeline

26 Jan, 14:10

More orcas in Maldivian waters – or more cameras?

18 Jan, 16:35

Banyans and saplings: 100 years old, replaced by inches tall

10 Dec 2025, 18:01

Maldives reefs at risk as coral tipping point is crossed

01 Dec 2025, 14:13

A year after Trump's aid freeze, Maldivian civil society counts the cost

02 Feb, 16:49

Alibe's house of stars: inside Kulhudhuffushi's century-old home

25 Jan, 15:19

The protection vacuum: Maldives grapples with children caught between law and exploitation

19 Jan, 16:09

Sun, sea and smog: the Maldives' dry season haze

08 Jan, 16:34

"Dangerous precedent": pension board clears path for MVR 2.4 billion money printing scheme

04 Feb, 19:08

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

28 Jan, 16:21

The US$ 500 million question: can the Maldives avoid default in April?

15 Jan, 17:31

The Noonu corridor: Maafaru emerges as Maldives' private jet hub

12 Jan, 17:31

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

10 Feb, 17:26

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

Concurrent elections: what the constitutional amendments mean for voters

06 Jan, 15:50

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

Pollution, dengue and domestic violence rising

20 Feb, 10:00

Dollar support, police chief retirement and farmer's market

19 Feb, 10:40

Terminal relocation, RTL ferries and water contamination

18 Feb, 09:05

Referendum date, murder retrial and unhealthy air

17 Feb, 08:45

Gas rationing, police chief retirement and uncontested council seats

16 Feb, 07:45

Comment: Opening the door to a petitioner's Majlis

15 Feb, 15:33

From the archive

Today in history

Maldives listed among ‘highly corrupt countries’

22 Feb 2018

Tourism bodies beg for Maldives state of emergency to stop

22 Feb 2018

State of emergency ‘unconstitutional’

22 Feb 2018

Short and snappy: President gives 18-minute speech to parliament

22 Feb 2018

Nasheed receives Courage Award at Geneva human rights summit

22 Feb 2017

Government wants to keep list of terror organisations secret

22 Feb 2016

Ex-minister escapes graft charges, watchdog refuses to disclose details

22 Feb 2016

Claims of Nasheed’s silhouette on new passport ‘an affront’

22 Feb 2016

Two state employees arrested over Thinadhoo powerhouse fire

22 Feb 2016

Bank staff arrested over leak of transactions by company in MMPRC scandal

22 Feb 2016

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