South Asia and Beyond
  1. Home
  2. Maldives

Category : Maldives

India’s ‘Quad’: Institutionalising The Colombo Security Conclave, Mauritius Joins Maldives, Lanka

India’s ‘Quad’: Institutionalising The Colombo Security Conclave, Mauritius Joins Maldives,

Team StratNews March 9, 2022

NEW DELHI: N. Sathiya Moorthy, Distinguished Fellow and Head of the Chennai Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Mr Moorthy discusses the 5th NSA-level Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) meeting hosted by the Maldives with Sri Lanka, India, Mauritius, Bangladesh and the Seychelles, India’s NSA Ajit […]Read More

Sri Lanka, Maldives Cite Major Threats In Region, Laud India’s Response

Sri Lanka, Maldives Cite Major Threats In Region, Laud India’s

Team StratNews October 26, 2021

NEW DELHI: Terrorism and the threat of radicalisation remain major threats to nations in the Indo-Pacific, Maldives Defence Minister Mariya Didi said at a virtual address during the Defence Conclave organised by BharatShakti web portal in Delhi. “Whether it has been the Christchurch attack, the Easter Sunday bombing in Sri Lanka or the terror attack […]Read More

Solih-Nasheed Friction, ‘India Military Out’ Campaign: What It Means For Delhi

Solih-Nasheed Friction, ‘India Military Out’ Campaign: What It Means For

Team StratNews July 23, 2021

NEW DELHI:  On ‘Talking Point‘, N. Sathiya Moorthy, Distinguished Fellow and Head, Chennai Initiative, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and Dr Gulbin Sultana, Research Analyst with the South Asia Centre in the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA) in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel analyses former Maldives […]Read More

India Out Campaign Led By ‘Minority, Given Some Sort Of Credence By Opposition Rhetoric, Action’

India Out Campaign Led By ‘Minority, Given Some Sort Of

Team StratNews July 22, 2021

NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Abdulla Shahid, the Foreign Minister of Maldives and President-elect of the UN General Assembly in a comprehensive chat with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Threats and personal attacks in the ‘India Out’ campaign in the Maldives, he says, are being conducted by “a group in a minority that […]Read More

From Tourism To Terrorism; How The Maldives Is Tackling Extremism

From Tourism To Terrorism; How The Maldives Is Tackling Extremism

Team StratNews May 18, 2021

NEW DELHI: The bomb attack targeting Former Maldives President and current Majlis Speaker Mohamed Nasheed has brought the spotlight back on the epithet that the country, at one point, had one of the world’s largest number of ‘ISIS’ jihadists per capita in Iraq and Syria. On ‘The Gist’, N Sathiya Moorthy, Distinguished Fellow and Head-Chennai […]Read More

Shrapnel Close To Heart, Multiple Surgeries Later, Nasheed Recovering

Shrapnel Close To Heart, Multiple Surgeries Later, Nasheed Recovering

Amitabh P. Revi May 8, 2021

NEW DELHI: Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious, out of danger and off ventilator after multiple 16-hour long ‘life-saving’ surgeries resulting from what authorities say was a targeted terror attack on the night of May 6. 2021 މެއި 06 ވަނަ ދުވަހުގެ ރޭ މާލެ، ނީލޯފަރު ހިނގުމުގައި އެއްޗެއް ގޮއްވާލައި ރައްޔިތުންގެ މަޖިލީހުގެ ރައީސް، ރައީސް މުޙައްމަދު ނަޝީދަށް އަމާޒުކޮށް […]Read More

NSAs Trilateral Meet Looks At Threats Posed By China, Radicalisation

NSAs Trilateral Meet Looks At Threats Posed By China, Radicalisation

Parul Chandra November 29, 2020

NEW DELHI: A little known regional security arrangement bringing together the national security advisers of India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives has met in Colombo. The revival, after a gap of six years, was at India’s initiative and appears at least partly driven by Delhi’s concerns about China’s expanding profile in the Indian Ocean, and […]Read More

© 2022, SNG. All rights reserved