Tag: Maldives
All eyes on Maldives strongman after shock election defeat
AFP | Voters in the Maldives were watching nervously for President Abdulla Yameen's next move on Monday after the China-friendly strongman suffered a surprise election...
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh to marry on Nov 10th
News Desk | The Bollywood celebrities Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are set to tie the knot on November 10th, 2018. A close source from...
Indian Malevolence in Maldives
Qamar Cheema | Maldives is troubled country where elected and unelected offices vie for power and political system is vulnerable. Country lacks democratic maturity and...
An Indian counter narrative on Maldives
M K Bhadrakumar | The Maldives is back in the headlines. This time around, it is not about democracy deficit or rule of law. Two...
Maldives president lifts 45-day state of emergency
News Analysis | Abdullah Yameen, the president of the Maldives has lifted a 45-day state of emergency on March 22, 2018. The emergency was declared...
Geopolitical Challenges of South Asia’s Silk Roads
Andrew Korybko | The Strategic Vision Behind the Silk Road The early part of the 21st-century is witnessing an astronomically rapid rise of China as a...
Modi strives to mend ties with China
News Analysis | India’s Foreign Policy towards China has been confrontational ever since the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) won the general elections in 2014. After...
Why does India fear China’s improving ties with the Maldives?
News Analysis | China is planning to establish a Joint Ocean Observation Station in the Maldives leading to numerous security concerns being raised in India....
Pakistan political system’s 21 day countdown
Farrukh Saleem| Judge Mohammad Bashir of Accountability Court-1, who is hearing graft cases against the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members, retires...
The Maldives: a honeymoon haven in peril
AFP | Famed as an upmarket tourist destination of white beaches and turquoise waters, the island nation of the Maldives is troubled by political turmoil...
Trump and Modi discuss South Asian politics over phone call
News Desk | On 8th February 2018, the White House reported that the leaders of the world’s two largest democracies Trump and Modi discussed the...
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are expected to tie the knot...
News Desk | Speculations are rife that after Anushka Sharma, another Bollywood Diva Deepika Padukone is set to tie the knot this year, with her...
After Nepal, Maldives raises specter of waning Indian influence
News Analysis | A newspaper in Maldives has raked up a political storm after publishing an editorial that is critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendar...
Can football help end Gulf crisis?
James M. Dorsey | A target of massive Saudi investment, the Maldives severed diplomatic relations with Qatar hours after a Saudi-UAE-led alliance of largely financially...
100 days of Qatar crisis
Ambreen Shabbir | The Qatar-blockade, the diplomatic crisis of 2017 that jiggled the world in different ways, approached its 100 days. There has been no...
The Maldives Crisis Is An Outgrowth Of The Chinese-Indian New Cold...
Andrew Korybko | The escalating situation in the majority-Muslim archipelago country of the Maldives is detail-heavy and has been steadily unfolding in one way or another...
Saudi-UAE-Qatar crisis: Will the US’ mediation bear fruit?
News Analysis | The noise of Saudi-led Qatar boycott is reverberating in the region and beyond as the need for mediation and protection is being...
Neutrality not an option: Pakistan to choose between Qatar or Saudi...
News Analysis | Pakistan will not cut off ties with Qatar in wake of the decision of the GCC countries to sever diplomatic relations with...
Saudi-UAE campaign against Qatar: Muslim nations forced to choose sides
James M. Dorsey | A Saudi and UAE-driven campaign to isolate Qatar and, by extension, Iran puts non-Muslim Arab states in a bind and tests...
US-Saudi games in the Middle East: Will Qatar bow down to...
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The move by a group of countries led by Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt – with Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, and Maldives...
Indian Army, Navy and Air forces join hands: who is the...
Ikram Sehgal | India’s newly annunciated "Joint Armed Forces Doctrine" envisaging force projection beyond its borders mandates that the three services, Army, Navy, and Air...
Asian leaders wary of Saudi’s spreading their Gospel of truth
James M. Dorsey | Critics in the Maldives likely sighed relief when Saudi King Salman this week postponed his visit because of an outbreak of...
Military bases in Maldives for Saudi Arabia & China?
James M. Dorsey | Saudi King Salman’s stop in the Maldives on his month-long tour of Asia brings into focus how this tiny archipelago – best...