Articles about Maldives

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Traveling to a new place is incomplete without some shopping. Several people pack light just so they can fill up their bags later.

The Australian cricket contingent is currently in the Maldives following their departure from India after the suspension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season.

Maldives, the South Asian island nation popular among rich Indians and film stars for holidaying, has issued a travel advisory for Indians, barring them from staying at tourist facilities in such islands that are inhabited by the locals.

Maldives is set to become the first foreign country to receive COVID-19 vaccines from India. The Asian country will reportedly receive a consignment of Covishield doses on Wednesday.

With serene white-sand beaches and crystal-clear waters, it's no wonder that Maldives is rated as one of the most exciting travel destinations in Asia.

Pep Guardiola is considered to be one of the greatest football managers in Europe, as he is currently having a great stint in England, with Manchester City.

The 27th Chief of Indian Army, General Bipin Rawat, is all set to take office as India's first Chief of Defense Staff, and quite naturally the expectations from him are high.

Nepal women's cricket team bowler Anjali Chand scripted history against Maldives in the South Asian Games.

Just like weddings, honeymoons are also a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and for that very reason, they must be unforgettably special.

What makes beaches great is that they have something for all sorts of travel souls.

The love life of newly-married Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas came to a full circle after they went to Maldives on their honeymoon recently.

PM Narendra Modi, who arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday morning, has paid tributes to the victims of the Easter Sunday bombings in Colombo that took place in April this year.

PM Narendra Modi who arrived in the Maldives on Saturday afternoon has been conferred with the island nation's highest honor accorded to foreign dignitaries by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

The honeymoon trip of a British couple, who got married on April 19, took an unexpected turn after they fell ill; allegedly due to hotel food. The couple was rushed to a hospital. While the husband survived, his wife passed away.

The exiled former leader of the Maldives has led his party to a landslide victory only five months after returning to the country, preliminary results showed on Sunday.

Malaika Arora, who is rumored to be marrying Arjun Kapoor soon, is currently enjoying the best phase of her life.

India played a "positive" role in the restoration of democracy in the Maldives by "exerting pressure" on the ruling regime, and the new government in the island nation would be "sensitive" towards New Delhi's "concerns", former Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom said Sunday.

In a major blow to the authoritarian rule in the Maldives, veteran lawmaker Ibrahim Mohamed Solih declared victory in the Presidential polls, and India hopes this will bring a new dawn to the strained relationship between the two countries.

On Friday evening, an Air India flight from Thiruvananthapuram to the Maldives ended up landing on an unoperational runway in Velana International Airport.

Leaders from a number of countries, including the US and Russia, have expressed grief over the death of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and recalled his contributions in strengthening bilateral relations and maintaining regional peace.

After a picture of Shilpa Shetty coming out of a diagnostic lab with reports in her hand gave way to all sorts of speculations, the actor took to Twitter to clarify about the same.

Celebrities have always been a soft target for the online trolls. We recently saw Abhishek Bachchan's face-off with a Twitter user who called him "useless".

Shilpa Shetty, who is currently in Maldives with son Viaan and husband Raj Kundra, was recently criticized for going fishing during the vacation.

The Maldives will not extend the state of emergency that is due to expire, said an envoy on Wednesday amid criticism of the government over the recent political turmoil.

In a move that could further exacerbate the already-disturbed relations between India and Maldives, Male has declined Delhi's invitation to participate in the biennial multinational naval event "Milan."

Apart from being engulfed in political turmoil, Maldives has now become the latest linchpin in India-China's tussle for regional leadership.

An Indian and a British journalist who were arrested in the Maldives a day back will be deported to their home countries, said the Maldives police.

In unheralded moves, US President Donald Trump has been tilting away from Pakistan. He has also been deepening ties with his other South Asian ally, India to counter an aggressive China in the sub-continent.

After ex-Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed urged India to intervene to end the ongoing political turmoil in the nation, China said it was against any external intervention to resolve the crisis.

The Maldivian Government led by President Abdulla Yameen has declared a state of emergency for 15 days in the troubled island nation.

The political crisis in the tiny island-nation of Maldives reached critical mass with the Supreme Court looking to issue an impeachment order for President Abdulla Yameen ahead of this year's presidential elections.

A newspaper in Maldives has raked up a political storm after publishing an anti-India editorial.

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar has said India expects its Indian Ocean neighbors, Sri Lanka and Maldives, to be considerate about its security concerns.

India and the US have been concerned about increasing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean Region.

Opposition MPs in Maldives claim the military has locked down the country's parliament, in a bid to block a no-confidence motion impeaching the speaker of the house.

Yameen Rasheed, a liberal blogger who ran political-satire blog The Daily Panic, was found with multiple stab wounds in the Maldivian capital of Male.

Experts have warned that Maldives may well have become the latest hub of Islamist extremism in South Asia.