"What we are saying is we are worried. Half or two-third of our atoll may be sold and people don't know what's happening. Is it being...
Police officers have also been searching boats in Faafu atoll. A ferry called Endheri was searched in the early hours of Thursday morning and police officers...
The police took Maldives Independent journalists Hassan Mohamed and Hassan Moosa into “protective custody” on the island of Nilandhoo, Faafu Atoll, on Wednesday after ruling party...
The Faafu project will be similar to "mixed development projects in French Riviera" with "international sea sports, mixed development, residential high-class development, many tourist resorts, many...
Citing the need to safeguard the army from political influences, Defence Minister Adam Shareef Umar announced plans to amend the Armed Forces Act this year, prompting...
Maldives Ports Limited CEO Mohamed Junaid resigned in the wake of a widely publicised feud with a ruling party lawmaker over a disputed fuel supply deal....
Despite the foreign minister claiming successful consolidation of democracy, the curtailment of fundamental rights and the widely condemned imprisonment of opposition leaders during President Abdulla Yameen's...
"What I see is this government probing ladies more towards staying home and doing cookery. Why would anyone at any level of the government think that...
A mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign is underway across the Maldives with an ambitious goal of vaccinating all Maldivians between the ages of eight and...
Following the guilty verdicts and US$1,800 fines handed to Raajje TV journalists Mohamed Wisam and Leevan Ali Nasir last month, Adam Zareer becomes only the third...
President Abdulla Yameen launched Monday morning a US$400 million project awarded to China's Beijing Urban Construction Group to build a new runway at the Velana International...
A police staff serjeant, who was in charge of the Laamu Gan police station, was fired on Thursday. According to local media, the officer sent a...
Following the resignation of two top prosecutors, sources from the Prosecutor General's office have alleged that Bisham's "abrasive" demeanour and short temper have contributed to growing...
The police have decided to appeal a magistrate court order to protect a 900-year-old cemetery in the Meedhoo ward of Addu City after ancient tombstones were...
The department of judicial administration insisted that the northern branch on the island of Kulhudhufushi has not been shut down due to budget constraints. The judiciary...
Is the opposition to the imminent Saudi-funded "mega project" in Faafu atoll principled, strong and united enough? asks Azra Naseem.
Zaidul Ameen, a Malé city councillor under arrest on a blackmailing charge, has accused a senior police officer of threatening to keep him in custody until...
