Maldives crisis: India stuck between a rock and a hard place

Former President of Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed, Supreme Court Justice Ali Hameed and Judicial administrator Hassan Saeed have been arrested, just hours after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency in the ...

MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Monday, his spokesman Abdul Aleem told Reuters, hours after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency for 15 days, in an escalation of a legal battle with the ...

Maldives opposition leader and the son of former President Abdul Qayoom today expressed fears about his arrest being "imminent" as the Maldives Government has intensified its crackdown on the opposition.In an interview given to ANI, Faris Maumoon, a Member of ...

Male:Maldives President Abdulla Yameen lifted a 45-day state of emergency today, a day after senior political opponents were locked up indefinitely for allegedly trying to topple him last month. Yameen chose not to extend the draconian laws he had invoked on ...

Maldives : Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Wednesday sent his special envoys to three 'friendly nations'- China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. "Members of the Administration's Cabinet, on the direction of President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, will visit ...

[Maldives], Feb 7 (ANI): Hours after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency in the Maldives, the opposition called for other countries to intervene in the crisis. Ali Zahir, deputy leader of Adhaalath Party (AP), demanded an immediate ...

[Maldives], Feb. 06 (ANI): Embattled Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Tuesday accused the judges of plotting to overthrow him, saying that the emergency was imposed to investigate "this plot, this coup" of the Maldivian Supreme Court, which ordered the ...

The Maldives police have allegedly used force and pepper spray on a group of people gathered outside Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed's residence in Male to stop his arrest. "#Maldives Police use pepper spray to disperse the protesters," tweeted Maldives Voice.

[India], Mar 22 (ANI): Welcoming the revocation of the state of emergency in the Maldives, India on Thursday asserted that a number of concerns, expressed by the international community still remain to be addressed. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a ...