India's prime minister has yet to visit the Maldives, despite taking office in 2014.
The Maldives prisons authority spent millions unlawfully or accumulated it as a loss.
The Elections Commission has made public a list of eligible voters for September's presidential poll.
The Maldives was thrashed by Indonesia in the vote for a UN Security Council seat from the Asia-Pacific region.
The opposition appears divided in its quest to field a unity candidate.
Indonesia got more votes than the Maldives in the contested election for one Asia-Pacific seat by 144 to 46.
The head of the electoral body is a loyalist of President Abdulla Yameen.
Ambassadors are confident India will vote for the Maldives to get a seat on the UN Security Council, despite nosediving bilateral ties.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was arrested in February during a state of emergency in connection with an alleged coup plot.
Relations between the two countries have come under strain in recent years, mostly over China’s influence in the Maldives but also over a controversial 45-day state...
The government has given India until the end of June to remove the helicopter from the Maldives.
The election is expected to be in September and will be held against the backdrop of widespread criticism of civil and political rights abuses by President...
The veteran lawmaker has been described as the ideal candidate because of his efforts to unify the parties and political leaders within the Maldives United Opposition.
The government hit back after calls from Western ambassadors "to demonstrate genuine commitment to a credible, transparent, and inclusive election process."
Despite police snatching ballot boxes to execute a court warrant, nearly 44,000 members voted for exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed to be their candidate in this year’s presidential elections, the...
Leaders of the Maldivian Democratic Party and Jumhooree Party have been exchanging recriminations after disagreements about fielding a single candidate broke out into the open last...
All five members of the Ihavandhoo island council have been suspended without pay for three months over alleged obstruction of housing ministry staff.
