NEW DELHI: Maldivian president Mohamed Muizzu will be landing in New Delhi on Sunday for his first State visit to India. As per media reports in the Maldives, Muizzu, his wife Sajidha Mohamed, and a high-level delegation of Maldivian government officials traveled on a special flight arranged by the Indian government, a gesture reserved for…
NEW DELHI: Maldives president Mohamed Muizzu on Friday claimed that the island country has a very strong bilateral relationship with India and he is planning to visit India as soon as possible.“I am planning to visit (India) as soon as possible. We have a very strong bilateral relationship,” Muizzu said.Several media reports indicated that Muizzu…
NEW DELHI: Misunderstandings with India have been resolved through the latter’s withdrawal of troops from the Maldives, the Indian Ocean neighbour said as India prepares to host President Mohamed Muizzu for his first official visit this month.Ties between the two nations have seen dramatic improvement since India replaced its military personnel, who manned Indian govt’s…
NEW DELHI: Maldivian president Mohamed Muizzu is set to visit India “very soon,” his spokesperson, Heena Waleed said on Tuesday.The exact date of the visit is still being finalised, with discussions ongoing to find a mutually convenient time for both countries’ leaders.Waleed announced Muizzu’s upcoming visit on the same day that two junior ministers, who…
NEW DELHI: India and the Maldives on Friday discussed expediting implementation of various ongoing defence cooperation projects in the archipelago, in a development that comes soon after external affairs minister S Jaishankar visited Male last month amid the strain in bilateral ties.The 5th defence cooperation dialogue, with Indian defence secretary Giridhar Aramane and Maldives’ chief…
NEW DELHI: Maldives is very much at the heart of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and a key partner in Indian Ocean Region (IOR), foreign minister S Jaishankar said as he joined his counterpart Moosa Zameer in Addu city in inaugurating the Addu reclamation and shore protection project and Addu detour link bridge project facilitated by…
NEW DELHI: Amid signs of a thaw in India-Maldives ties for the past few months, President Mohamed Muizzu met visiting India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar on Saturday and, as they presided over a ceremony for the inauguration of water and sanitation projects spread over 28 islands, called India one of Maldives’ closest allies and invaluable…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday announced that India and Maldives have signed an agreement to introduce Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in the archipelago nation.This comes as Jaishankar is in three-day official visit to the Maldives.Taking to X Jaishankar said, “Witnessed signing of MoU between (the) National Payments Corporation of India and…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar landed in Maldives on Friday, beginning a three-day official visit to the island nation from August 9-11. This visit is significant as it marks the first high-level engagement between India and the Maldives since the election of President Mohamed Muizzu, who has shifted the island nation’s foreign policy…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar is set to pay an official visit to the Maldives from August 9 to August 11. This visit marks the first high level engagement by India with the Maldives since Mohamed Muizzu assumed the presidency late last year.Jaishankar’s visit comes after the recent trip of President Muizzu to India, where…
