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Human rights
Maldives Launches Mental Health Helpline
The service will provide counselling and support tailored to individual mental health challenges. Red flags, such as callers expressing suicidal thoughts will be conveyed...
Finance and Economy
Maldives Economy: IMF Flags Concerns
In its report, the mission noted that amid elevated fuel prices coupled with continued strong import demands, the current account deficit in 2024 is...
Bio-diversity
Maldives Plans for a Floating Resort on Ecologically Significant Island Evokes NGOs ‘Concern’
In a joint statement, the civil society organisations have called on the government of Maldives to declare HDH.Keylakunu as a nature reserve and halt...
Disaster Management
Maldives floods: Homes damaged, people relocated
The army, police and Male’ City Council alongside public workers, has stacked 1,018 sand sacks for prevention in 152 areas including locations such as...
Clean tech
ADB, Maldives Sign Agreements to Expand Renewable Energy Access
ADB’s support consists of $41.5 million from the Asian Development Fund which provides grants to ADB’s most vulnerable developing member countries, an $8.5 million...
Bio-diversity
Undersea survey reveals a cafeteria for Sharks, Tuna
The survey team came across a natural mesh made of fossilised carbonate reefs that traps micro-nekton on their way to bottom of the sea,...
Accreditation
Maldives New ‘Evidence’ Law Undermines Media Freedom
The Maldives Media Council (MMC), Maldives Journalist Association (MJA), and Transparency Maldives all condemned the law, saying it contravened constitutional protections for the media....
CSR
The irony of subsisting in the middle of an ocean of resources
Islanders in a distant Maldivian atoll now benefit from a fish filleting platform installed to add value to the catch the fishermen bring.
200 kilometres...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is putting people at risk. So are populations in the alluvial...
Human Society is Making the Mistake of Forgetting the Importance of Forests: President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu said that she was confident that the officers of the Indian Forest Service had become completely...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
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Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is...
