The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld its second death sentence since the government ended an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in 2014, paving the way for...
The government has identified individuals suspected of recruiting Maldivians for militant extremist groups fighting in the Syrian civil war, Defence Minister Adam Shareef Umar revealed today.
The criminal court has transferred two suspects arrested in April over the abduction of Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan to house imprisonment.
Residents of central Kaafu Atoll who protested a recent hike in electricity prices have resolved to pay their bills, as the government continues to drag its...
The opposition has renewed calls for Yameen’s arrest, claiming it has new evidence he instructed the central bank to halt an inquiry into the Maldives’ biggest...
A speedboat carrying eight tourists from the Biyaadhoo Island Resort in Malé atoll caught fire on Saturday afternoon. The tourists and three crew members escaped unhurt.
The controversial chief judge of the criminal court, Abdul Bari Yoosuf, has taken charge of all five trials on graft and terror charges against former Vice...
Mental health clinics in the Maldives are struggling to treat hundreds of patients after a new regulation rendered a majority of staff ineligible to become licensed...
Environmentalists say Maldives reefs may not bounce back from this year's El Nino as fast as the government expects because of human stressors, such as dredging...
A forensic analysis of the former vice president's mobile phone "shows that Adeeb had used his phone to search online for ways to assassinate the president...
Yameen had claimed that GMR only paid MVR16 million to the government a year whilst MACL generated MVR1 billion in the first year after taking over...
A speedboat en route from the island of Maafushi in Kaafu atoll caught fire this afternoon just outside Malé's eastern harbour, injuring two crewmembers and a...
The ex-defence minister's lawyer Husnu Suood told the press that the Supreme Court will be asked to hear testimony from an eyewitness who saw a police...
The housing ministry is removing posters and banners from Malé’s public spaces, in a bid to “ensure public safety and well-being, and keeping parks, streets and...
The ministry of health has warned of health risks from unregulated Hijama therapy, urging practitioners of the complementary therapy to register with the government.
Ooredoo Maldives signed an agreement today with State Electric Company (STELCO) to enable customers to pay electricity bills via mobile service.
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party has expressed grave concern over the Election Commission’s plans to introduce electronic voting in the upcoming local council elections.
