Defence Minister Mohamed Shareef put the total number of Maldivians who travelled to Syria at 61.
Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed was arrested hours after a state of emergency was declared.
Ambassadors are confident India will vote for the Maldives to get a seat on the UN Security Council, despite nosediving bilateral ties.
The trial was cancelled 15 minutes before it was due to start.
Relations between the two countries have come under strain in recent years, mostly over China’s influence in the Maldives but also over a controversial 45-day state...
Tremors in the central Maldives were the result of reef blasting by a local resort firm.
The conglomerate, owned and run by self-exiled Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim, is said to have for paid for luxury Malaysian properties for two top judges.
The government has given India until the end of June to remove the helicopter from the Maldives.
The IMF and World Bank say major building projects have the capacity to transform the Maldivian economy, but are concerned about the high debt being fuelled...
Some protesters, including a 70-year-old female activist, were taken into custody when riot police moved to disperse the crowd at a busy intersection of the capital's...
The Maldives is the only South Asian neighbour that Modi has yet to visit since taking office in 2014.
Mohamed Anas' family urges police to name the twelve suspects remanded over his brutal murder.
Police Chief Ahmed Areef must accept an independent international investigation or resign as he is ultimately responsible for the failure to protect Yameen despite numerous death...
Prominent clerics accused of justifying the killing of 'apostates' as death threats mount in the wake of blogger Yameen Rasheed's murder.
A history of abruptly terminating contracts with foreign companies does not bode well for the foreign investment climate in the Maldives, writes a Maldives Independent reader.
The Maldives police have released photos of two men they suspect to be involved in the brutal murder of outspoken blogger Yameen Rasheed, but did not...
Four men were arrested on Monday during a series of police raids in Male over an intelligence tip off over a suspected terror plot, according to...
