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

NEW DELHI: India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on Friday and Saturday to carry forward the recent momentum in India-Sri Lanka relations, exactly a year after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected President in the island nation. On top of the agenda during Doval’s two-day visit is the revival […]Read More

NEW DELHI: India and the Maldives have signed an MoU for what is billed as the largest every infrastructure project in the island nation — a $100 million grant from India for the Greater Malé Connectivity Project which will link the capital with the three islands of Vilingili, Gulhifalhu, where a new commercial port will […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Who needs an Opposition in the Maldives when a former president and co-founder of the ruling party, Mohamed Nasheed, is playing this role quite effectively? This is the question being increasingly asked by many within and even outside the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) that Nasheed co-founded with current president Ibu Solih. Nasheed […]Read More

NEW DELHI: India has announced $250 million in urgent financial assistance through a loan with soft repayment terms to the Maldives. The country’s economy has been ruined by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the two mainstay sectors—tourism and fishing—being badly hit. This assistance will shore up liquidity, ease exchange rate fluctuations and provide the needed budgetary […]Read More
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