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A family for every child: the promises and risks of the foster care push

Applications are up. Safeguards haven't kept pace.

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Finders not keepers: the fisherman, the bolts, and the rocket from the sky

India's space debris reached Laamu Kunahandhoo.

24 Feb, 14:45

From archipelago to city-state: a Q&A with Salma Fikry

On who benefits when Maldivians leave their islands behind.

23 Feb, 15:17

News In Brief

News in brief from Tuesday, February 24.

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Finders not keepers: the fisherman, the bolts, and the rocket from the sky

India's space debris reached Laamu Kunahandhoo.

24 Feb, 14:45

From archipelago to city-state: a Q&A with Salma Fikry

On who benefits when Maldivians leave their islands behind.

23 Feb, 15:17

Mahzoom: Malé deserves better

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

22 Feb, 14:42

Episode 15: The referendum on combining elections

MDP MP Meekail on rejecting concurrent elections.

21 Feb, 14:00

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

Mahzoom: Malé deserves better

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

22 Feb, 14:42

Episode 15: The referendum on combining elections

MDP MP Meekail on rejecting concurrent elections.

21 Feb, 14:00

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

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

President champions climate adaptation abroad as dredgers blanket atoll in sediment

12 Feb, 17:15

"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

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

17 Feb, 16:03

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

16 Feb, 15:00

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

"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 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

Blocked cards, boardwalk vandalism and cat rescue

24 Feb, 01:27

What we brought home from the world's largest investigative journalism conference

23 Feb, 11:44

Farage to Chagos, drug bust and daytime eating

23 Feb, 09:31

MDP referendum stand, Addu power outage and missing man

22 Feb, 04:03

Pollution, dengue and domestic violence rising

20 Feb, 10:00

Dollar support, police chief retirement and farmer's market

19 Feb, 10:40

From the archive

Today in history

Primary losers allowed to contest

25 Feb 2019

Coalition lawmakers ‘sabotage’ presidential commissions bill

25 Feb 2019

Weekend arrests: a round-up of round-ups

25 Feb 2018

Police accused of seeking false testimony to arrest Gayoom

25 Feb 2017

Judicial watchdog backs supreme court’s sacking of judge

25 Feb 2017

President claims he was “not aware” cash handouts to ruling party officials came from stolen millions

25 Feb 2016

Home Minister claims Adeeb planned to set off bomb on May Day

25 Feb 2016

Major reshuffle in police force again

25 Feb 2016

Maldives’ pay out to GMR to include US$170million bank debt

25 Feb 2016

Nazim accused of conspiring with Villa group to harm state officials

25 Feb 2015

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