Maldives

India’s sees subregional engagement, like the expanding Colombo Security Conclave, as critical for securing its strategic interests.

The Maldives has begun to realize a mutually beneficial relationship with India, and the Solih government means to maintain it despite a growing rhetoric stirring anti-India sentiments.

Countries like Bangladesh, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka could see intensified terrorism thanks to links with the Taliban.

India expects the coming year at the UNGA to be tension-free.

Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives pledged a focus on pandemic relief and climate change during his yearlong term as UNGA president.

Police said that they were investigating the explosion as an act of terrorism targeting the former president.

The nature of bilateral political relations in the Indian Ocean region has an impact on the quality of subregional engagements.

Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval’s history with the island nation and the Rajapaksa brothers is worth keeping in mind.

Expanding economic cooperation is an important part of the deepening India-Maldives bond. Yet it is the military component of the relationship that is the target of the Maldivian opposition so far.

The Indian foreign secretary’s visit to the Maldives is to follow up on India’s deepening commitments in the island nation.

Days before the US presidential election, the U.S. secretary of state soldiers on with the Trump administration’s free and open Indo-Pacific strategy.