The anti-corruption watchdog launched a probe after an anonymised list of 661 flat winners caused an uproar from unsuccessful applicants of the government housing programme.
The sale of single sticks of cigarettes needs to be banned because “it is a tactic mainly used to lure children and young adolescents into smoking,”...
"None of the 56 lawyers has been allowed to exercise their right to defend themselves or be heard before a disciplinary action," noted the International Commission...
A group of Maldivian lawyers outlined serious concerns with the independence and functioning of the judiciary in a petition calling for wide-ranging reforms.
The Prosecutor General’s office has revised charges raised against MP Faris Maumoon from accepting bribes to offering to bribe fellow lawmakers to back the impeachment of...
A port worker was severely burned and two others injured when an oil barrel exploded Tuesday morning near the welding workshop at the Maldives Ports Limited's...
In his opening statement Monday at the UN Human Rights Council's 36th session in Geneva, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussain said the Maldivian government was "increasingly cracking down...
Several groups have been organising fundraising activities amidst an outpouring of sympathy for the fellow Sunni Muslims.
Proposed talks between the government and opposition have collapsed with both sides blaming the other for the failure to resolve a protracted political crisis through dialogue.
The four-party opposition coalition reacted to the unprecedented mass suspension by calling on the international community to consider imposing targeted travel and financial sanctions on Chief...
The PG spokesman told the Maldives Independent that the new criminal procedures law allows prosecutors to request secret proceedings "if they believe a circumstance that obstructs...
The Maldives has produced more terrorists who have fought in Iraq and Syria than any other country in the world," Acting Assistant Secretary Alice Wells told...
The Maldives became the first member state of the WHO Southeast Asia region to be verified malaria-free in 2015 and went on to eliminate lymphatic filariasis...
The cancellation comes after a social media campaign launched by MP Ahmed Mahloof, the spokesman for the four-party opposition coalition, urging the legendary actor to boycott the...
The 67-year-old business tycoon was allowed to leave with a travel document nearly two weeks after he was found guilty of attempted bribery and sentenced to...
“The two Maldives men, who worked as air-conditioner technicians, were arrested for using Malaysia and Singapore as a transit point before heading to Syria to join...
The changes were prompted by price increases in the global market, the State Trading Organisation said. The prices of crude oil presently stand at US$48.6 per barrel,...
