While India’s ties with the Maldives are diverse and deep and go back many decades, Chinese interest in the archipelago is recent. It was only in 2011 that Beijing set up an embassy in Malé.

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu is on a four-day visit to India. This comes after India and Maldives had a diplomatic spat over the former's troop presence in the island nation.

NEW DELHI — The Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu was given a red-carpet welcome on his first state visit to India on Monday, a trip that Prime Minister Narendra Modi said marked a "new chapter ...

Relations between India and the Maldives have been strained since Mohamed Muizzu became the Maldives president after an election campaign promising to push “India Out.” ...

Analysts here say it has succeeded in repairing relations between India and the Maldives. Muizzu’s pro-China stance had reversed his predecessor’s policy, ...

Maldives-India relations were hurt after Muizzu won power in April and demanded New Delhi replace 80 defence personnel it had stationed on the Maldives with civilians as part of his "India out" ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India stepped up its development assistance to the Maldives after the two leaders held talks in New Delhi on Monday in a bid to repair strained ties that saw the president of ...

India-Maldives relations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, “India considers Maldives a valued friend, and our nations will keep working together for the benefit of our people.” ...

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's first state visit to India aims to repair strained relations. During his five-day trip, he will meet with Indian officials and discuss bilateral issues ...

The Maldives’ mounting debt is the most central issue in its relations with both India and China. Over the past decade, the Maldives has borrowed some $1.5 billion from Chinese sources, which ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu shake hands before their delegation level meeting in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.