Mohamed Nasheed News

Slamming Chinese investment policies that have created debt, Mohamed Nasheed said, "Look at what is happening in Sri Lanka, it is so sad," adding "it was a mistake that we took part in the road and belt initiative." 

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed sustained injuries in a blast outside his family home on May 6. He is currently receiving treatment at ADK Hospital.

The data released by most exit polls predicted BJP-led NDA crossing the majority mark of 272 and even breaching the 300-mark.

Nasheed had announced that he will return to Maldives on November 1 after the opposition, led by his Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), had registered a surprise victory in elections held in September.

The Centre has already distanced itself from the controversy over Swamy's tweet on the Maldives.

Reacting to concerns raised by India over the extension of emergency in the Maldives, the country`s MoFA on Thursday said the assertion by India about was a distortion of facts.

India said on Thursday it does not see a valid reason for the Maldivian parliament to extend emergency.

Democratic institutions and the courts should be allowed to function without interference, India said.

Speaking at an event in Bengaluru, he said, "We don't want India and China against each other, not at all."

This comes a day after the military personnel blocked the MPs from entering the Parliament.  

Maldives' Supreme court on Tuesday night revoked an order to release nine high-profile political prisoners.

Maldives has seen a number of political crisis since the ouster of its first democratically-elected president Nasheed in 2012.

 "I want India to press the Maldives government to make my son`s murder case investigation go for a fair trial," Hussain Rasheed.

The Maldives on Thursday pulled out of the Commonwealth calling as "unjust" the grouping's decision to penalise the island nation over the circumstances that led to then President Mohamed Nasheed's ouster in 2012 and the lack of subsequent progress in resolving the political unrest.

The Maldives government said on Wednesday it was seeking the arrest of former president Mohamed Nasheed for failing to return to the archipelago to complete a prison sentence after receiving medical treatment in Britain.

Former Maldives deputy leader Ahmed Adeeb has been jailed for 15 years for plotting to assassinate the president, the latest in a string of prosecutions of senior politicians and opposition figures in the troubled island nation.

Adeeb still faces charges of trying to assassinate Gayoom when an explosion hit his presidential speedboat last year. 

A prominent human rights campaigner and Maldives' first democratically elected president, 49-year-old Nasheed had been allowed to go to Britain in January for the for spinal cord surgery following a deal brokered by Sri Lanka, India and the UK.

The US has expressed concern over "narrowing of legitimate political space" in Maldives, saying too many opposition politicians still remain behind bars due to the government's "intolerance" for criticism.

The US Senate has unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Maldives to rectify the "injustice" meted out to its former president Mohamed Nasheed and all other "political prisoners".