Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was expected to head to Singapore after fleeing to the Maldives in the early hours of Wednesday, a government source in Sri Lanka told Reuters, as protests continued in Colombo.

Qatari businessmen are eager to invest in the Republic of Maldives, said Qatar Chamber first vice chairman Mohamed bin Towar al-Kuwari in a meeting with Maldives Minister of Economic Development Uz Fayyaz Ismail held Monday.

A third man has been arrested following the attempted assassination of Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed, police said Sunday, as they renewed an appeal for more information about another suspect.

Qatar Airways Holidays has launched new ‘quarantine-free holiday packages’ to the Maldives, Istanbul and Tbilisi.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih will arrive in Doha Sunday on an official visit to the country.

Qatar Airways Holidays launches ‘Travel Bubble Holidays’ packages at two exclusive island resorts for Qatar citizens and residents.

India has embarked on a ‘massive’ operation calling up passenger jets and naval ships to bring back some of the hundreds of thousands of nationals stuck abroad due to coronavirus restrictions, the government said.

The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Friday driven by a rise in cases in India as the tiny Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives locked down its capital.

Commonwealth nations on Saturday welcomed back the Maldives 40 months after it angrily quit the organisation over criticism of its human rights record under strongman president Abdulla Yameen.

An abducted Maldivian journalist was murdered by militants, a panel investigating deaths and disappearances under the previous government said

India on Saturday deported former Maldives vice president Ahmed Adeeb, who faces attempted murder and corruption charges at home

The Maldives on Saturday held its first parliamentary election since former strongman leader Abdulla Yameen was forced to stand down, with his arch-rival expected to make a big comeback in the vote.