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Deciphering Muizzu’s India policy
Nov 28, 2023

Deciphering Muizzu’s India policy

Yameen’s withdrawal raises the immediate question if it could encourage President Muizzu to shed his reluctance to do business with India

Maldives: Solih’s victory in MDP primaries of the presidential poll
Feb 09, 2023

Maldives: Solih’s victory in MDP primaries of the presidential poll

Solih’s recent victory in the presidential primaries deals a blow to the Opposition candidates Nasheed and Yameen’s campaigns

Maldives: Shahid backs Solih for Presidential polls
Sep 06, 2022

Maldives: Shahid backs Solih for Presidential polls

Inside the Parliament, the Yameen camp continued to target India claiming that the bill criminalising the 'India Out' campaign was drafted by the BJP.

Maldives: Solih gets a boost for 2023 presidential bid
Aug 22, 2022

Maldives: Solih gets a boost for 2023 presidential bid

Nasheed ‘puts on hold’ much-hyped proposal even as Yameen moves away from ‘India Out’ campaign.

Maldives: Anomalies in Yameen’s anti-India bias
Apr 13, 2022

Maldives: Anomalies in Yameen’s anti-India bias

The quick and silent acceptance of the defence and security agreements with the US is indicative of the anti-India bias that is being harboured by the

Reimagining India in the neighbourhood
Mar 31, 2022

Reimagining India in the neighbourhood

What is fuelling anti-India rhetoric in India’s neighbourhood despite the efforts made by the Indian government to allay such fears?

Maldives: Coalition partners rally around Solih against Yameen’s ‘India Out’ campaign
Jan 05, 2022

Maldives: Coalition partners rally around Solih against Yameen’s ‘India Out’ campaign

Should Yameen’s Opposition reconsider their campaign strategy for the 2023 polls before it is too late?

Maldives: What does Yameen’s acquittal mean for domestic politics, India ties
Dec 06, 2021

Maldives: What does Yameen’s acquittal mean for domestic politics, India ties

As former President Abdulla Yameen is released from a four-year incarceration, his re-emergence into politics will have an impact on India-Maldives ti

Maldives: India-funded sea bridge project has an ambitious deadline
Aug 31, 2021

Maldives: India-funded sea bridge project has an ambitious deadline

Maldives’ latest India-funded project has stark differences from China-funded ventures

मालदीव: यामीन ख़ेमा भारत की तवज्जो क्यों चाहता है?
May 13, 2021

मालदीव: यामीन ख़ेमा भारत की तवज्जो क्यों चाहता है?

विपक्षी पीपीएम-पीएनसी गठजोड़ ने यामीन की रिहाई में मदद क�

Maldives: Why Yameen camp seeks Indian attention
Feb 03, 2021

Maldives: Why Yameen camp seeks Indian attention

The Opposition — PPM-PNC combine — has called upon New Delhi, along with Sri Lanka and Pakistan, to help obtain freedom for Yameen.

Maldives: Yameen camp’s efforts to take ‘India Out’ campaign to Parliament fails
Oct 20, 2020

Maldives: Yameen camp’s efforts to take ‘India Out’ campaign to Parliament fails

While there is greater cohesion in the government’s response to India-centric development agreements, it is also seeking to keep the China relations

On poll eve, Maldives’ HC frees Yameen, de-freezes bank funds
Apr 03, 2019

On poll eve, Maldives’ HC frees Yameen, de-freezes bank funds

Yameen was arrested on lower court orders, which acted on a police complaint that he was seeking to influence witnesses in a larger money-laundering c

Maldives: Advantage MDP, but possibilities still in parliament polls
Feb 26, 2019

Maldives: Advantage MDP, but possibilities still in parliament polls

The MDP did not seem to suffer from poll fatigue, even months after the presidential elections as a high number of them voted in the MDP primaries, to

Yameen lifts Maldives Emergency, Nasheed calls it 'New Normal'
Mar 23, 2018

Yameen lifts Maldives Emergency, Nasheed calls it 'New Normal'

State of Emergency has been extended because of no change in the circumstances following the 1 February order which threatened national security of Ma

Nasheed’s military request bad diplomacy for India?
Feb 09, 2018

Nasheed’s military request bad diplomacy for India?

Nasheed’s tweet may have produced two undesired effects for India. If anyone in the Yameen dispensation were to take Nasheed and the Indian media se

Emergency in Maldives: Options before President Yameen and India
Feb 06, 2018

Emergency in Maldives: Options before President Yameen and India

As long as Yameen claims to be working within the four walls of the Constitution, there is nothing much that third nations could do on the ground.

Yameen’s China deals: Need for India to revisit its IOR neighbourhood policy
Dec 12, 2017

Yameen’s China deals: Need for India to revisit its IOR neighbourhood policy

For New Delhi, the China FTA came as a surprise as less than a year earlier, Yameen had declared that Maldives’ first FTA, whenever signed, would on

Nasheed again shoots at combined opposition's feet?
Sep 11, 2017

Nasheed again shoots at combined opposition's feet?

Unlike in the past, Yameen seems clear that he would not move a rung down to accommodate the MDP's official demand for freeing Nasheed.

Maldives: Whither 'international community'?
Sep 01, 2017

Maldives: Whither 'international community'?

Neither Yameen, nor his ministers have explained how getting eternally indebted to China would help in the economic independence of Maldives.

Maldives: Urgent need to revisit Constitution again?
Aug 08, 2017

Maldives: Urgent need to revisit Constitution again?

The need for a review of the pro-democracy constitutional scheme was felt during the interregnum that followed the exit of President Nasheed on Februa

Maldives: After poll-loss, Yameen taunts 'divided opposition' leaders to return home
May 18, 2017

Maldives: After poll-loss, Yameen taunts 'divided opposition' leaders to return home

For the opposition to remain hopeful of getting Yameen impeached and disqualified from elections 2018 is a tall order.

मालदीव: विपक्ष की राष्ट्रपति यामीन के खिलाफ आम उम्मीदवार उतारने की योजना
Feb 21, 2017

मालदीव: विपक्ष की राष्ट्रपति यामीन के खिलाफ आम उम्मीदवार उतारने की योजना

चीन को निर्विवाद रूप से अपना विकास साझीदार चुनकर मालदीव �

Maldives: Govt pays up GMR, offers 'legal protection' to investors
Nov 28, 2016

Maldives: Govt pays up GMR, offers 'legal protection' to investors

Coinciding with third Maldives Investment Forum in New Delhi, the Government of President Abdulla Yameen paid up the Indian infrastructure major GMR G

Maldives: Now, it’s Gayoom’s turn to lose another round to Yameen?
Nov 15, 2016

Maldives: Now, it’s Gayoom’s turn to lose another round to Yameen?

Gayoom faction in ruling PPM has lost two more of the eight MPs that had backed them against President Abdulla Yameen in the latest tussle in the Mald

Realignment of forces in Maldives: All set for a battle royale
Nov 03, 2016

Realignment of forces in Maldives: All set for a battle royale

PPM chief, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has formally withdrawn support to half-brother and incumbent, Abdulla Yameen to spice up matters in Maldives