78,2% of the state budget allocated for the operation of government-owned companies has been spent in the first seven months of the year, government is planning major downsizing, though expect in dividends MVR 552 million (€31 million)

StatePharma, a fully state-owned company, is working to identify and address difficulties in accessing medicines across the Maldives; specifically, the company's MD and senior officials met with the Baa Atoll Eydhafushi Council as part of this effort

Sheikh Ismail Mohamed, the first Maldivian student to graduate from the Islamic University of Madinah and one of the most influential religious scholars in the Maldives, has passed away at the age of 85

Five scuba divers have died in an accident occurred off Vaavu Atoll in what s considered the country's worst scuba-related accident ever and bringing to 42 the victims of diving or snorkeling in the last 6 years

A group of locals has caught a large crocodile on an uninhabited island in Lhaviyani Atoll and handed it over to the Maldives National Defense Force; the 1,5 m reptile, seen on 'Dhihdhoo' island, is neither an exceptional sight nor an endemic species