Sri Lanka to relax visa conditions for Maldives
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Sri Lanka will sign an agreement with the Maldives to relax visa conditions in the near future. A proposal in this regard had...
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Finance Ministry to amend five acts in future
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The Finance Ministry will amend laws pertaining to five acts in the near future. Among them include the Value Added Tax Act, Nation Building Tax...
PM to chair Indian Ocean Conference in Maldives next month
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will chair this year’s Indian Ocean Conference which will take place on September 3 and 4 in the Maldives, the Prime Minister’s...
Twenty Lankan fisher boats Maldives bound
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The Department of Fisheries claims that all vessels and sailors that were trapped at sea owing to the inclement weather are safe. Speaking to...
Indian PM to visit Sri Lanka along with Maldives
(UTV|COLOMBO) – President Maithripala Sirisena participated in the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who secured a landslide victory in Lok Sabha Elections...
Former Maldives President in landslide win
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The exiled former leader of the Maldives has led his party to a landslide victory only five months after returning to the country, preliminary...
Maldives state of emergency: judges block release of political prisoners
UTV | MALE – The Maldives’ highest court has revoked an order to release high-profile political prisoners a day after President Abdulla Yameen declared a...
Fishing craft meets with an accident off Maldives
UTV | COLOMBO – A multi-day fishing craft that sailed out from Beruwala Fisheries Harbour with 6 local fishermen has met with an accident in...
Ousted Maldives leader vows to return to power
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Ousted former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has vowed to contest the next presidential election in 2018, saying the 2012 coup that forced...
Pakistan keen to host the 19th SAARC summit – Sartaj Aziz
(UDHAYAM, ISLAMABAD) – Pakistan has expressed hope that it could soon host the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit which was postponed...