'Birthday morning started with a delicious & healthy breakfast in the most beautiful setting'.
This is Modi's first visit to the Maldives as prime minister. The last visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the Indian Ocean island nation was by Manmohan Singh in 2011.
The 38-strong contingent of Australian players, coaches, umpires and media pundits will have to wait longer, though, to get home, in the face of a ban on arrivals from India until at least May 15.
Like other Bollywood stars, Daisy Shah took a trip to the Maldives.
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu's party secured a 'supermajority' in Parliament by winning over 60 seats in Sunday's crucial parliamentary election, seen as a litmus test for the pro-Beijing politician whose policies are being closely watched by both India and China amidst regional power dynamics.
It seems in the geopolitics of the 21st century, we can see the subcontinent acting as one geopolitical entity to secure its economic interests. Key to this transformation is a strong India that is pre-eminent but not dominant, notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'Kane and few others from New Zealand were not feeling safe in Delhi because of the COVID situation there'
Modi is likely to hold separate bilateral meetings with the foreign leaders.
The Lakshadweep administration, which is under attack from the Opposition for its changes, on Thursday said it was laying the foundation for the future of islands in a planned way and to develop it on the lines of Maldives in two decades.
What's cooking between Suhana, Ananya, Shanaya and Navya?
India's schedule at the Olympics on Wednesday, Day 5 of competition.
'Agreements signed between the Maldives and China have seriously worried India.'
For India to view the new Sri Lankan leadership only through the prism of the past or through their narrow view on China, is fraught with possibilities that should be avoided, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Maldives Jumhooree Party (JP) leader Qasim Ibrahim called on Maldivian President Mohammed Muizzu to formally apologize to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of India, Voice of Maldives, a Maldivian digital news outlet, reported.
Alia Bhatt had a fun holiday with her sister Shaheen and their gal pals Anushka and Akansha Ranjan in the Maldives.
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Chennai City FC, the 2018-19 I-League champions, will play their remaining AFC Cup group stage matches in Maldives with the island nation being given the hosting rights following the continental body's decision to organise the games in a single venue. The Asian Football Confederation's decision, prompted by the rising COVID-19 case count in many countries, was announced by Maldives Sports Minister Ahmed Mahloof.
During his just-concluded visit to China, Muizzu, regarded as a pro-China leader, sought to align Maldives closer to Beijing and both countries elevated their ties to a strategic partnership.
Bipasha Basu and her husband Karan Singh Grover are holidaying in Maldives, and making lovely pictures.
The newlyweds have zoomed off to the Indian Ocean atolls for their honeymoon.
Taapsee Pannu has been been making a splash with her Maldives vacation pictures online.
Maldives health minister resigns, appeals for support from international community.
The average value of retail digital payments dropped 48 per cent from Rs 8,769 in March 2021 to Rs 4,560 in March 2024 due to a growing preference to use digital modes of transactions for small value payments, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) report on the trend and progress of banking in India.
The Maldives former deputy speaker Abdulla said the remarks by the minister are "simply shameful, racist and intolerable."
The government of the Maldives on Sunday suspended three deputy ministers for derogatory social media posts against Modi.
Maldives is certainly Bollywood's FAVOURITE destination, especially this time of the year.
India has lodged a strong protest with Bangladesh over a now-deleted social media post by a key aide of Bangladesh's interim government that claimed certain areas of Indian territory should be part of that country. The post, which included a map showing parts of West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam as belonging to Bangladesh, was made by Mahfuz Alam, a de facto minister in the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government. The post sparked backlash and was subsequently deleted. India's External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal reminded all concerned to be "mindful" of their public comments and emphasized the need for responsibility in public articulation.
The meeting between Jaishankar and Zameer in the Ugandan capital city of Kampala came amid an unease in the Maldives' bilateral ties with India.
He urged China to bolster the flow of its tourists to the Maldives.
A passenger at Delhi airport said that most of the flights are delayed.
Urvashi gets a lakh roses...Manushi shares a throwback picture... Shriya goes red...
Huma's in the Seychelles... Aditi wants to fly... Dia shares a throwback pic...
Bipaash Basu and her husband Karan Singh Grover are living it up in the Maldives.
Terrorism is not just a threat for a country but to the entire civilization, Modi said.
'Of course, Maldives is chicken feed for the Indian armed forces. And an intervention in the Maldives may serve the purpose of creating jingoism in an election year.' 'But from the foreign policy perspective, any such move will be a flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter,' warns Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Opposition leaders across the Maldives are being rounded up and placed under detention as draconian measures are being put in place by President Abdulla Yameen.
The action against the two journalists came as a privately-owned television station in the Maldives went off the air, citing threats during the country's current state of emergency.
Driven by a boom in domestic tourism, a record number of weddings in November and December, and a surge in extended weekend vacations.
Would it serve India's interest to go to war with China over the Maldives, asks Aditi Phadnis.
Varun misses his dog... Rasika starts shooting for a new season...Neena catches a sunset...
