The original was posted on Facebook on 22nd January 2020. The following is a loose translation: If a girl has not been circumcised can she be...
“Assisted Evolution” offers hope for the future of corals.
A former Islamic minister said it was against the Sunnah (teachings of the prophet) to have non-consensual sex with wives.
A history of abruptly terminating contracts with foreign companies does not bode well for the foreign investment climate in the Maldives, writes a Maldives Independent reader.
"The Commonwealth, in short, needs to stop giving legitimacy, and thus helping to prop up, the dictators and authoritarians who abuse their people and flout the...
"A relationship founded on an agreement of protected independence in the past has developed into a relationship today that is wide-ranging and contemporary," writes James Dauris,...
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has called on President Abdulla Yameen to honour commitments made to release former president Mohamed Nasheed and other jailed...
Thousands watched in awe as the night sky over Malé lit up for more than half an hour with the largest display of fireworks the country...
Questioning the state's decision to appeal a terrorism conviction against former President Mohamed Nasheed, lawyers revealed today that the opposition leader's 13-year jail sentence was commuted...
Citing irregularities and rights violations in the terrorism trial of former president Mohamed Nasheed, the Prosecutor General has announced today that he will appeal the criminal...
A parliamentary debate on amending the constitution to allow foreigners to own land in the Maldives will be up for debate at an extraordinary parliament sitting...
The People’s Majlis has barred vice president Dr Mohamed Jameel Ahmed’s lawyer from responding to charges on his behalf before an impeachment vote at tomorrow's parliament...
Jared Genser, a member of former president Mohamed Nasheed’s international legal team was denied a business visa upon his arrival in the Maldives today.
PPM MPs held a meeting with President Abdulla Yameen, the attorney general and the tourism minister today after the president requested parliamentary counsel on leaving the...
President Abdulla Yameen has ordered the police to launch an investigation into how a suspect in the murder of MP Afrasheem Ali was allowed to leave...
A woman in Malé stabbed herself in the stomach after her husband left to Syria, local media report. A young man attempted suicide in Muli after...
A committee has approved changes to the People's Majlis standing orders to offer the vice president just 30 minutes to respond to an impeachment motion, and...
