Tag: Maldives

Balances and benefits in Southern South Asia: The Maldives and Sri Lanka in 2021 (Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy, ORF)

The increasing competition between India and China and the Indo-Pacific’s rising prominence has reinvigorated the world’s interest in the Indian Ocean and its island...

Maldives: India first or India out? (David Brewster, The Interpreter)

Recent protests in Maldives against India’s influence in the country calling for “Indian military out” has led the Maldives government to respond by reiterating...

Maldives/India/China. Maldives: India-funded sea bridge project has an ambitious deadline (N Saathiya Moorthy, ORF)

In what promises to be the crown jewel of development projects in Maldives, the host government has signed a commercial contract with Indian infrastructure major, Afcons,...

Maldives – Faction within MDP and Political Developments in Maldives: Back to Unstable Polity? (ICWA)

Samatha Mallempati On 26th July 2021, a resolution was passed in the internal congress of the Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) calling for a declaration of...

Maldives – How in the name of Islam, hate crime bill is being made into a hate object (Sathiya Moorthy, ORF)

At a time when the nation should be united in the face of terrorism that had targeted Parliament Speaker Mohammed ‘Anni’ Nasheed, the ruling...

UNGA/Maldives/India – Abdulla Shahid’s election as the UNGA President; victory for Maldives-India diplomatic cooperation (Sathiya Moorthy, ORF)

The election of Maldives’ Foreign Minister, Abdulla Shahid, as the 76th President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) could not have come at a...

Maldives – Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed Narrowly Avoids Assassination: A Political Conspiracy or Islamic State Plot? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Animesh Roul On May 6, Maldives’ Speaker of Parliament and former President Mohamed Nasheed was seriously injured in an assassination attempt outside his home in...

(Maldives/India) Majlis’ debate marks Maldivian ‘defence deal’ with India (ORF)

N SATHIYA MOORTHY The pact, one of the very many signed between the two nations during Minister Jaishankar’s visit, provides for India building a dockyard...

(Maldives) What does energy security mean for Maldives? (ORF)

VINITHA REVI https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/what-does-energy-security-mean-maldives/