A person pictured holding a lit cigarette.
The Ministry of Health announced Wednesday that 81 percent of deaths in the Maldives are connected directly or indirectly to smoking.
In his speech to mark t...
Minister of Gender and Family, Aminath Zenysha Shaheed Zaki has said that there still challenge facing women in the work environment. The Minsiter said that even with the high number of female studen...
The former managing director of 'Aasandha', Maumoon "Maanbe" Abdul-Samad on Thursday was appointed as a deputy housing minister.
Abdul-Samad was removed from his post at 'Aasandha' on Wednesday -- ju...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president on Monday removed the country's liberal foreign minister who spearheaded a successful campaign to extricate the country from possible international sanc...
Minister of Health, Abdulla Nazim has departed for Geneva, Switzerland to take part in the World Health Assembly – an annual event held by the World Health Organization.
The WHA will take place in Ge...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's environment minister Anil Madhav Dave has died after several months of illness. He was 60.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several members of his cabinet tweeted their condo...
Former HRCM Vice President Shifaq Mufeed, newly appointed state minister to Home Ministry
The government of the Maldives on Sunday appointed former member of Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (H...
Shifaq Mufeed (Histo) – who resigned from Human Rights Commission of Maldives (HRCM) last week– has been appointed State Minister at Ministry of Home Affairs.
The appointment has been confirmed by Sp...
President Abdullah Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Sunday appointed former human rights commission member Shafeeq “Histo” Mufeedh as a state minister at the home ministry.
Mufeedh had resigned from the human...
In an attempt the make utilities more accessible to citizens throughout Maldives, the government is currently in discussion with various power suppliers to make electricity more affordable, home minis...
