"We have shared this information with other countries. Hence, if they travel using this passport, they will face problems at the point of entry and immigration...
Some 22 men from the northern island of Ihavandhoo were charged with obstruction of police duty over the forced closure of a police station during nationwide...
The supreme court has introduced new rules requiring the family court to seek its approval before registering marriages involving minors. In accordance with Islamic sharia, the...
The man was charged under the old penal code, which carries a penalty of either six months in prison or house arrest, or a fine of...
Mohamed Asif was found guilty of smuggling 286 grammes of illicit narcotics into the Maldives in February. He reportedly swallowed 35 bullets containing the drugs and...
Police are investigating Ameen Faisal on terrorism charges over the president's military detention in 2010 and have barred the ex minister from leaving the country
The civil court ordered the defence ministry on Monday to reinstate a senior military officer who was unfairly dismissed in the wake of President Abdulla Yameen's...
Former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, who is serving a 33-year prison sentence on corruption and terror charges, is accused of hiring an alleged Sri Lankan sniper,...
A New Delhi-based human rights group has urged the Commonwealth's democracy watchdog to suspend the Maldives from the organisation over an unresolved and protracted political crisis,...
The trial of the only suspect charged over the arson attack on the opposition-aligned Raajje TV resumed today after a six-month hiatus. Mohamed Meead is the...
The Environment Protection Agency is assessing the damage caused to the Fuvahmulah reef after a Vietnamese cargo ship ran aground on the southern island's lagoon.
Abdul Aleem Adam, the PPM's deputy secretary-general, accused the exiled opposition leader of "lying to bring to President Maumoon into disrepute and to create discord among...
A 57-year-old man held in pre-trial detention at a remand centre in Malé died on Tuesday morning in the second custodial death in less than a...
A group of men with their faces covered reportedly handed out a two-page letter to prayer-goers urging Maldivians to wage jihad. According to the letter, its...
The New York-based press freedom organisation also called on the government to "immediately stop all attempts to intimidate the press, and send a clear message to...
Anti-corruption NGO Transparency Maldives has called for a broad and independent investigation into allegations raised in an Al Jazeera exposé about systemic corruption, abuse of power...
Omkar Khandekar recounts the police raid on the Maldives Independent's office in the wake of the much-anticipated release of Al Jazeera's corruption exposé Stealing Paradise.
