India has cleared the primary withdrawal of Rs 3,000 crore for the Maldives as a part of its ongoing financial and monetary help to the island nation, the Indian High Commission in Male mentioned, the Business Standard reported. According to a press release issued by the Indian mission on Thursday (23 April), the funds are…
Overview Today, 4 April 2026, Maldivians go to the polls in what’s arguably the nation’s most advanced electoral train for the reason that introduction of multi-party democracy in 2008.1 On a single day, voters are collaborating in three concurrent electoral occasions: the Local Council Elections, the Women’s Development Committee (WDC) Elections, and a Constitutional Referendum…
A ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in 2023 strengthened Mauritius’s claims to the Chagos Islands. It did so by endorsing an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2019. The ICJ dominated that Britain’s 1965 separation of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius was illegal…