Maldives Financial News

Maldives was unreachable on January 6 night. The official websites of the President, Foreign Ministry, and Tourism Ministry of Maldives were down and unreachable. The reasons behind top government websites' not working are yet to be ascertained.

Times of India, Muizzu said that if India did not withdraw its forces it would amount to disregarding the "democratic will" of the Maldivian people and jeopardizing the future of the democracy. "Maldivian people have a very no to the idea of foreign military personnel being stationed in the Maldives. Right now, it is India that maintains such a presence in the Maldives.

Madhya Pradesh, northern parts of Maharashtra, southern parts of Uttar Pradesh...," Mohapatra warned. He added that there was also a low-pressure area forming over the southeast Arabian Sea leading to clouds over areas in Lakshadweep and Maldives Islands. Meanwhile, the press release issued by the IMD on Monday said cold day to severe cold day conditions are likely to continue over some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and north Rajasthan during the next two days and decrease thereafter.

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external affairs ministry announced that, as part of its development assistance programme, India has extended 308 lines of credit aggregating to $32.02 billion to partner countries over the years. Of this, about $17.06 billion has been extended to Asia, $12.15 billion to Africa and $2.81 billion to others, it said. Around 600 projects have been taken up and executed in several sectors, including infrastructure, power, connectivity, agriculture, education and health, the minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. He said grant assistance projects are concentrated primarily in India’s neighbourhood in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. “India’s developmental projects are based on the needs and aspirations of the partner countries. The main instruments of support include lines of credit, grants-in-aid as well as capacity building programmes.

COVID LIVE UPDATES A report by Moneycontrol mentioned that the Serum Institute of India (SII) currently offers a vaccine against the XBB1 variant of Covid-19, which is "similar" to the JN.1 variant. The spokesperson told the business website that SII would share the documents with the public once they are submitted to the regulators. Mint could not officially verify the report.

On Thursday, the Maldivian government announced it would terminate a hydrography agreement signed with India in 2019. The decision came shortly after the newly elected administration of Mohamed Muizzu asked India to withdraw its troops from the island country–a day after he took charge. The two countries have mostly had cordial relations, with India providing administrative and infrastructure support.

INS Tarmugli, formerly known as INS Tillanchang, has a history steeped in maritime significance. Originally part of the Trinkat Class and actively serving in the Indian Navy until 2006, it embarked on a unique journey, transitioning into MCGS Huravee under the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF).

Like over-caffeinated college students, Sultan Al Jaber, John Kerry and other CoP-28 delegates pulled an all-nighter to turn what could have been an ‘F’ grade on a global climate deal into a respectable ‘C.’ Still, in their scramble to produce a historic pact, they left a glaring omission that could doom the whole enterprise in the longer run. They ignored the money constraint. Give credit where it’s due: The end product of this year’s UN climate conclave, an agreement that the world needs to stop using fossil fuels, was the first of its kind and a drastic improvement over most CoPs, which are usually failures.

Maldives has reported contamination in Pakistsyrups and suspension medicines, Dawn reported. The report prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to issue an alert urging countries to step up vigilance and test products manufactured by a Lahore-based pharmaceutical company, according to Dawn.

Narendra Modi and President Muizzu recently met in Dubai along the sidelines of CoP-28 and reportedly agreed to set up a “core group" on ties that would also look into the matter of troop withdrawal. The stakes have clearly risen.

NSA Ajit Doval participated in the 6th NSA-level Meeting of the Colombo Security Conclave on Thursday in Port Louis, Mauritius to give push to steps to stabilise Indian Ocean Region. The Colombo Security Conclave was established in 2020 when India, Sri Lanka and Maldives agreed to expand the scope and membership of their Trilateral Meeting on Maritime Cooperation. Mauritius joined the conclave at the 5th NSA-level meeting of the Conclave on 09-10 March 2022 held in Male, Maldives. Cooperation under the CSC focuses on five pillars of cooperation including maritime safety and security, countering terrorism and radicalization, combating trafficking and transnational organized crime, cyber security and protection of critical infrastructure and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Mint breaks down why. The country's newly elected President Mohamed Muizzu said India and the Maldives have reached an agreement to secure the withdrawal of Indian military personnel in the country. As a candidate, Muizzu had called for the removal of any foreign military personnel and followed up this request soon after taking office during a meeting with union minister Kiren Rijiju.

Narendra Modi and Maldives newly elected President in their maiden meet held in Dubai discussed the issue of presence of India’s military platforms in Maldives that are engaged in humanitarian missions and the bilateral core group set up by the two leaders will discuss operational matters of platforms. “We have seen reports about status of Indian platforms in Maldives engaged in HADR activities. The continued usefulness of the Indian platforms as it was recognised in discussions needs to be looked at in a proper perspective.

gender pay gap across sectors in India is well known. But what is liable to raise eyebrows is that even a 'modern' sector like technology, with its sturdy linkages with the global economy and young cohort of workers, suffers from the same malaise. A new Aon PLC report shows that the unadjusted gender pay gap in the tech sector in 2023 is 28-30%, while in junior management, it is 18-20%.

PTI. Rijiju called on Muizzu at his office a day after attending the Maldvian leader's inauguration ceremony. Muizzu is widely seen as a pro-China leader had promised to ensure the removal of Indian troops and maintain geopolitical neutrality if he is elected to power. The Maldivian defence force had said in 2021 that about 75 Indian military personnel were located in the country to maintain and operate an aircraft that was provided as an aid in 2020.

Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives formally requested on Saturday that India withdraw its troops from his strategically located archipelago, fulfilling an election pledge on his first day in office. Speaking with a visiting Indian minister, Muizzu asked New Delhi to recall personnel deployed to operate three gifted aircraft patrolling the maritime territory. «The President formally made the request when he met the Minister of Earth Sciences of India Kiren Rijiju, at the President's Office earlier today,» his office said in a brief statement. It did not set a timeline or specify the number of personnel to be withdrawn, but Muizzu announced at his inauguration the previous day that removing foreign troops was a priority. «The country will not have any foreign military personnel in the Maldives,» Muizzu said shortly after being sworn in at a televised, open-air ceremony. «When it comes to our security, I will draw a red line.

India voted in favour of five resolutions relating to the situation in the Middle East, including one that condemned Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and abstained on one resolution. The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) of the UN General Assembly approved six draft resolutions on November 9 all by recorded votes, relating to the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

Maldives will work to return Indian military personnel from its shores «as soon as possible,» President-elect Mohamed Muizzu told Reuters on Sunday, insisting it was the top foreign policy priority for the tiny Indian Ocean island chain. Muizzu won the Maldives' presidential election last month, beating incumbent President Ibrahim Solih in a second-round runoff, and will take office on Nov. 17. Returning Indian military was a core policy of his election campaign. «I will be holding frank and detailed diplomatic consultations with India to work out details of sending back military personnel from the Maldives as soon as possible,» he told Reuters in an online interview from Male.

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh opened up their private world to the public, sharing their cherished wedding moments in a video revealed on the eighth season of 'Koffee With Karan'. The video, a glimpse into their romantic wedding at Lake Como, Italy, after almost five years of secrecy, showcases the couple's journey from their engagement to their dreamy wedding ceremony on November 18. Singh, in his signature charismatic style, reminisced about his proposal to Padukone in the Maldives in 2015. Their love story took a significant step when they flew to Bengaluru to meet Padukone's parents.

SunOnline International reports. However, the nationality of the victims was not specified at the time of the incident.