Maldives

Malta, Libya popular among Italian holidaymakers

Malta and Libya are being considered as new destinations by a number of Italians for the Christmas and New Year period. Il Corriere reported. The Caribbean and the Maldives remain very popular with Italian holidaymakers....

Maldives Needs a New Home

Maldives is a nation of 1190 coral islands grouped into 26 atolls in the center of the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India. About 200 of these islands are inhabited and 80 of them have tourist accommodations. The highest...

Bank of Maldives employee caught trying to embezzle Rf50,000

BOOKMARK An employee working for the Main Branch of the Bank of Maldives was caught while trying to embezzle Rf50,000 from the bank, last Thursday. According to Haveeru sources one of the employees at the cash counter at the...

Climate change: Maldives seek new homeland

According to a November 11 article in the British Guardian, the Maldives government is investigating the possibility of purchasing land in order to move its citizens to escape the disappearance of the Indian Ocean archipelago...

Sinking Maldives looks at India, SL for new homeland

Male (Maldives): Maldives is suffering from the problem of plenty – water, in their case. The low-lying coral islands’ survival is being threatened because of the rising sea waters. President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed said,...

Sounds of the Earth

Music is a unifying force that can melt barriers,” says Sonya Mazumdar, CEO, EarthSync - a music label and an audio-visual production house based in Chennai. Her sentiments resonate in the label’s first in-house documentary...

Search on for two men lost at sea

BOOKMARK The Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) launched two separate searches for two men lost at sea, Major Ibrahim Afzal of the MNDF has said. One of the missing men had been a Maldivian on a safari boat and had jumped...

We have to concentrate on democracy: Maldives Prez

Mohammed Nasheed, the first ever democratically elected president of Maldives, the picture-perfect achipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean spoke to CNN-IBN National Affairs correspondent Sumon K Chakrabarti in a...

Pakistan to host 3rd meeting of SAARC Ministers of Interiors on Nov. 27

ISLAMABAD, Nov 14, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- Pakistan will host third meeting of SAARC Ministers of Interiors in Islamabad on November 27 to discuss various issues including security in the region, exemption...

President Nasheed appoints 14 state ministers, four deputy ministers

President Mohamed Nasheed has appointed Maldivian Democratic Party’s interim president Ibrahim Hussain Zaki as the Special Envoy to the President and appointed Dr. Hassan Saeed of the New Maldives Movement to the post of...