Eleven Indian fishermen have been taken into custody by the Maldivian Navy for allegedly crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), officials said here on Thursday.

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India has proposed early presidential elections in Maldives to end the political impasse in the country following the ouster of the first democratically elected President Mohamed Nasheed.

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Welcoming efforts of ‘all sides’ to find a peaceful way forward in Maldives, US has said it was working closely with India in resolving the political impasse in the island nation.

"We welcome the eff

The National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) being set up by the central government as a powerful anti-terror agency was arbitrary and 'an infringement on the rights of the states', key ally Trinamool

Maldives' ousted President Mohammed Nasheed's MDP party has said that it was grateful to India for its 'timely intervention' to help resolve the political impasse here, a view shared by the new regime

An attack by vandals at the national museum in the Maldives capital was reminiscent of the Taliban's demolition of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan and has raised fears that extremists were gaining

Giving a four-day deadline to ousted President Mohammad Nasheed's MDP, Maldives' new regime on Thursday asked the party to join the national unity government but it stuck to its demand for snap polls,

The Maldives' new leader said a presidential election could be held before the scheduled date of October 2013 provided conditions were right for a free and peaceful poll, after his predecessor quit la

A defiant Mohammad Nasheed has rejected a police summons to record his statement on his controversial order to arrest a top judge when he was President, amid claims by his party that he still enjoyed

Ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed on Tuesday vowed to take his fight with the new regime to the country's Parliament and even threatened to launch a civil disobedience movement.

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