Top India Travel Platform Suspends Maldives Trips as Row Worsens

One of India’s biggest online travel platforms halted bookings to the Maldives, amid an increasingly fraught diplomatic spat that began when officials in the tourism-dependent island nation derided Indian leader Narendra Modi on social media.

“Our company is entirely homegrown and made in India,” Prashant Pittico-founder of EaseMyTrip, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We have decided that we will not accept any bookings for Maldives.”