Maldives News

“There is a tendency to imitate foreign terror groups, even if there are no formal links”

DELHI From The Economist print edition Islamist extremism rears its head in the tourist paradise A RECORD number of tourists, some 650,000, visited the Maldives' upmarket and otherwise uninhabited island ... via The Economist

“We are here to spend a week to do a bit of scuba diving and just relax”

MALE: Unsigned love letters, flowers, tokens and trinkets of undying affection. This is not a page from a romantic novel, but how youngsters in the Islamic Republic of Maldives plan to celebrate Valentine's ... via South Asian Media Net

“News of an NRI's house sold by his gardener's son or 1,500 cases filed by defrauded NRIs piling up in one court is not much of an aberration. A house in India for an NRI is not just property but a bond with the roots”

GAYOOM IN DELHI: Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Gayoom's wife Nasreena Ibrahim watch during a ceremonial ... via The Peninsula

New Delhi, Feb 11 : Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom today said that his meetings with top Indian leaders will be a part and, in continuation with the 'growth of relations between the Maldives and India ... via India Gazette

Colombo, Feb 11: Sri Lanka will confer its highest title, Lanka Mithra Vibhushana, on Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom during his two-day official visit to the island beginning Tuesday. via Newkerala.com

New Delhi, Febraury 11 : India starts its preparation for the new international football season with national camps in Goa in preparation for the SAFF Cup in Sri Lanka and Maldives and the AFC Challenge Cup ... via Express India

MALE: President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Saturday met with the Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation , Lars Thunell. via South Asian Media Net

MALE: According to Economic Times of India, Indian authorities has increased the limit on export of construction materials - river sand by 30 per cent and stone aggregate by 95 per cent to Maldives for the next ... via South Asian Media Net

New Delhi, Feb 7 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008 here today. via India Gazette

“So, we take our responsibility seriously”

Government is considering setting up a Venture Capital Fund to promote green technologies, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today. via Outlook

The Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom arrived here Wednesday on a seven-day state visit. via India Gazette

Heads of five governments will join India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he opens here Thursday the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit that has climate change as its theme. via India Gazette

MALE: A badly decomposed body was found floating in the seas off Male' atoll Emboodhoo , the Maldives Police Service has said. via South Asian Media Net

“We all have hopes, we all have dreams.”

Running out of space in its crowded capital, this republic of 1,200 islands thought it had a can't-miss solution: build another island.

Planners weren't discouraged when people started eating the freshly planted palm saplings, or called the new island an ugly misfit among the picture-perfect beaches of their Indian Ocean archipelago. One day, they told themselves, the new island called Hulhumale would have it all: leafy streets, an artificial beach, a marina for megayachts, a luxury hotel and an entertainment strip. Read more

“Maldives has made impressive development gains over the last three decades and has moved from being one of the 20 poorest countries in the world in 1978 to become a middle-income country [with] the highest per capita income in South Asia”

MALE: The World Bank will continue its presence in the Maldives "at least in the medium term" due to "concerns" over fiscal policy and political instability, a spokesperson has said. via South Asian Media Net

“We must import more items and quantities from Maldives”

MALE: A fervent desire on the part of India to lift traditional aid and trade-driven cooperation with Maldives to a comprehensive relationship structure comprising economic and academic cooperation and a ... via South Asian Media Net

MALE: Mohamed Abdulla of Henveiru Wood Pecker has submitted necessary application along with 52 signatures to the Commissioner of Elections office for registration of political party under the name of New ... via South Asian Media Net

NEW DELHI: Maldives, located just south of Lakshadweep islands in the Indian Ocean, has somehow slipped below the radar of India's strategic consciousness all these years. via South Asian Media Net

In the Maldives, President Gayoom was saved from an assassin by a boy scout. Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim grappled with the assailant, whose knife was concealed in the national flag, and was able to fend off the ... via Online Scene

MALE: Mohamed Jaisham Ibrahim, the brave Boy Scout who helped thwart an attempt to assassinate the President during his visit to North Thiladhunmathi Atoll Hoarafushi earlier this month, has been presented with ... via South Asian Media Net