A 17 year old girl has died after falling from the 4th floor balcony of her home in Male.
Aiminath Shazeefa, Vainjeheyge, Th. Vandhoo, died around 8.40 p.m. yesterday at Athirimatheege, according to the police.
She was immediately taken to IGMH but died while being treated.
Police are investigating the tragedy.
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(0)President Nasheed is attending a climate change conference in Italy, as well as an investment forum, and conducting more negotiations concerning Bikoka University’s proposed extension in the Maldives, according to the President’s Office press secretary Mohamed Zuhair.
Miadhu Daily reports that the cost of President’s visit is being covered by the organisers of the meeting – Italy’s Centre for a Sustainable Future and the Italian government.
President Nasheed will also call on the President of Italy and hold discussions with senior officials of the Italian tourism sector.
(0)Dislikes(0)The DRP has submitted amendments to the Act on Religious Unity for Majlis consideration. The amendments are designed to “strengthen the Shafi sect Islam in the country, strengthen the Islamic foundation of the country through Islamic education at all academic levels and to prevent Maldivians from studying religions other than Islam,” according to Dr. Afraasheem Ali, MP for Ungoofaaru and chairperson of the DRP’s religious cell.
The bill stipulates that Islam and Dhivehi shall be taught as compulsory subjects from grade 1 to 12 in the Maldives.
It criminalises any action in the Maldives school system to promote religions other than Islam and bans the teaching of those religions.
The bill also makes the Shafi sect the basis of Islam in Maldives.
The bill also calls for the establishment of an independent Fiqh Academy which would issue fatwas on new and emerging issues on Islam and on those issues where there is disagreement among scholars.
Of 72 MPs present and voting, 70 MPs supported accepting the bill for preliminary debate.
(0)Dislikes(0)MP for Kaashidhoo is to be summoned to Court over a corruption case involving a vessel he purchased while working at Male Municipality during the previous administration.
The court has ruled that the case of the State against Ismail Abdul Hameed, MP for Kaashidhoo, can be heard. The ruling was made in response to a procedural motion by his lawyers that the case cannot be
tried.
The judge also asked Ismail Abdul Hameed to be present for the next hearing. Hameed was previously a DRP member at the time of the alleged crime, then joined the MDP, but he is now an independent MP.
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