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Topic: Mohamed Muizzu

‘Our friendship will be bright & clear,’ says Modi as India extends $565 mn line of credit to Maldives

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday declared that ties between India and Maldives will “always remain bright and clear” highlighting the growth in...

India-Maldives open FTA talks as Modi set to visit island nation amidst diplomatic thaw

New Delhi: India and the Maldives have begun preliminary discussions for a Free Trade Agreement, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said Tuesday. Malé has drawn...

As woman’s fall puts spotlight on Muizzu govt, youth-led protests rock Maldivian capital

Protesters have been hitting streets of Malé over young Maldivian woman found injured on rooftop of a warehouse. Two police chiefs have been replaced in as many days.

China FTA won’t benefit Maldives, hope India steps in to help avert debt default—ex-president Nasheed

Mohamed Nasheed in Delhi for Raisina Dialogue. In an exclusive chat with ThePrint, he said Maldives doesn’t have a trade surplus with China, which is why govt must turn around on FTA.

After back-to-back delegations to India, Maldives hosts Chinese FM Wang Yi

Wang makes a courtesy call on Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu amid a thaw in India-Maldives ties in recent months, with several high-level delegation visits between the two countries.

Rajnath set to meet Maldivian defence minister, India keen to hear what Malé needs

Maldivian minister’s India visit seen as a thawing of relations that became strained after Mohamed Muizzu assumed presidency end-2023, winning on basis of an ‘India Out’ campaign.

India a ‘first responder’ for Maldives. How ties between the 2 nations have evolved in the past year

During a meeting with S Jaishankar, Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel, on a 3-day visit to India, appreciated timely emergency financial assistance extended by India to Maldives.

MEA slams WaPo reporting on ‘anti-Muizzu plot’, Pakistan killings. ‘Nurse compulsive hostility’

MEA spokesperson responds to Pakistan Deputy PM Ishaq Dar’s comments urging mutual willingness to normalise ties, saying that 'the relevant T-word is terrorism and not tango.'

Maldivian oppn sought ‘$6 mn from India’ in bid to impeach president Muizzu, reports WaPo

R&AW agent explored ways to overthrow Muizzu along with 'intermediaries' Shirish Thorat, ex-IPS officer, and Savio Rodrigues, journalist-politician, US daily alleges.  

India & Maldives reboot ties, sign currency swap agreements as Muizzu & Modi meet

Talks on FTA & vision for comprehensive economic & maritime security partnership are other talk outcomes. Maldivian President looks to India for tiding over liquidity challenges.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

India bond yields rise as RBI moves to drain liquidity, lift overnight rates

New Delhi: India’s sovereign bond yields rose after the central bank announced its first step this year to drain cash from the banking system,...

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.