Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has denied demanding US$100,000 from his longtime rival and successor as a "goodwill" gesture for negotiations on forming an alliance to...
Ibrahim Shahiban Ahmed and Mohamed Shamin Ali, who work for various environmental NGOs, were detained during a raid of the building that houses the Maldives Independent.
The government has dismissed an explosive Al Jazeera corruption exposé aired on Wednesday as defamatory and biased, accusing the Qatari broadcaster of advancing the opposition's agenda...
Shammoon 'Lucas' Jaleel was arrested on June 29 over a tweet in which he likened police officers to a streak of tigers. The 27-year-old spent one...
The police have raided the Maldives Independent office in Malé with a court warrant over an alleged coup plot, hours after an highly-anticipated and explosive Al...
Maldivian citizens who are instructed to return to the country either in connection with a court judgment or an ongoing investigation do not have the right...
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has vowed to uphold the Maldives constitution after the opposition leader spoke of an alliance between the pair to oust the...
The opposition has condemned a campaign launched by President Abdulla Yameen’s administration to discredit an upcoming corruption exposé by Al Jazeera as “desperate moves by a...
The police have declared a hunt for a man who defaced a giant billboard of President Abdulla Yameen at the artificial beach in Malé
Transparency International and its local chapter have called on the prosecutor general to dismiss charges against a senior bank official on trial for leaking documents related...
Former Islamic Minister Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari was briefly detained Sunday at Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike Airport for carrying large sums of cash in his handbag.
Mohamed Shainee speaks about the Maldives United Opposition, rifts within the ruling party, talk of the transition of government and how President Abdulla Yameen keeps his...
The release of teaser trailers for Al Jazeera’s long awaited corruption expose, 'Stealing Paradise,' has sparked a frenzy of anticipation in the Maldives and intensified a...
A law firm mounted Sunday a challenge to President Abdulla Yameen's defamation law, asking the high court to strike down key provisions on the grounds that...
Reserves at the Maldives Monetary Authority readily available for use in the foreign currency exchange market declined by US$1.5 million in July as the central bank...
Yazeed Mohamed, the commissioner general of taxation, sued Raajje TV over a July 30 article accusing him of tax fraud
Several immigration officers have been sacked for refusing on religious grounds to trim their beards and lower the hem of their trousers below the ankles. Notices...
