Maldives President Mohammad Nasheed

• Maldives' ousted president Mohamed Nasheed confident to win fresh presidential polls

  Ousted Maldivian president Mohammad Nasheed is confident of a "landslide" victory in the presidential poll to be held again this month after the Supreme Court annulled the previous round, an official said.

• Maldives crisis: President willing to submit to probe into transfer of power

  A visiting U.S. official said on Saturday that the Maldives wasn't ready for early elections as a way out of its political crisis as the Indian Ocean nation's new president agreed to an independent investigation into his takeover of power.

• India sends special envoy to crisis-hit Maldives

  As the crisis in Maldives deepened, India today sent its special envoy to Male to assess the situation in the island where former President Mohammad Nasheed has been insisting that he was ousted in a coup.

• Nasheed stung by US nod to new Maldives leader

  Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed voiced bitter disappointment on Friday at the US decision to recognise his successor, who Nasheed suspects of conspiring in his removal from office.

• Maldives unrest: Nasheed calls for fresh polls; new president says he won't be arrested

  A Maldives court issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for former President Mohamed Nasheed, one day after his supporters rampaged in the capital and his claim of being ousted by a coup left unclear the stability of the fledging Indian Ocean democracy. Police spokesman Abdul Mannan Yusuf refused to disclose the grounds for the criminal court's warra...