The State Trading Organisation assured new imports to alleviate a shortage of onions and stabilise soaring prices. Onion stocks ran short as the ongoing bout of rough weather disrupted port operations and delayed the clearance of the weekly shipment.
After the JSC invited applications last week, the three candidates who stood for the vacant chief justice post reportedly include former justice Abdul Ghani Mohamed, former High Court chief judge Shujau Usman and former criminal court chief judge Abdulla Mohamed.
The Bank of Maldives posted a second quarter net profit of MVR 558 million (US$ 36 million), up 24 percent from the same period last year. Total assets stood at MVR 51 billion, with a loan book of MVR 21.3 billion and deposits of MVR 33.6 billion. "The bank's capital and liquidity ratios remain strong and well above regulatory requirements," BML said.
Fathimath Rifaath, a senior political director at the homeland security ministry, deleted a Facebook post insulting the long-sleeved kurta official attire of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissayanake. "Glad he didn't show up wearing a sarong," she wrote, drawing widespread criticism and calls for disciplinary action.
The fatal stabbing of Moosa Ibrahim, 29, in Maavah on Monday resulted from a dispute over MVR 500 owed from drug sales, sources from the island told Mihaaru. The assailant, Mohamed Ibrahim, 29, from Haa Dhaal Nolhivaranfaru, turned himself in to the police and confessed to the killing.
Addressing allegations over the unfair sale of public spaces and parking spots in Malé during a city council town hall meeting, Mayor Adam Azim pledged to publish a registry of leased plots and land. A video presentation on the council's work and activities during the first half of the year was made at the town hall.
