Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is perhaps facing one of the worst crises in his professional life. The central bank of that country has ousted the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank on the ground that he has exceeded the official retirement age of 6...
By Shamima Amin-Methu
The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Prof. Yunus, is like a rare gem. This rare gem should be displayed in the National Museum as a treasured showpiece; instead, some people in Bangladesh are trying to break the gem into pieces to verify its purity....
By Tahmima Anam
It is winter and Dhaka is full of lights. Shaheed Minar, the memorial commemorating the Language Movement that led to the independence of Bangladesh, glows a bright orange. In the posh neighbourhoods of Gulshan and Baridhara, entire apartment buildings ...
SOROCOBA (Brésil), 18 mars 2011 (AFP) - Quand on évoque l'économie brésilienne, on compte en milliards de dollars pour montrer la bonne santé et le potentiel de ce vaste pays latino-américain de 193 millions d'habitants.Mais Alessandra França a prou...
Some freedom fighters expressed disappointment over the removal of Prof Muhammad Yunus from Grameen Bank and demanded a peaceful and honourable transfer.
In a statement sent here yesterday, they said, "We the undersigned freedom fighters are totally disheartened and th...
By Ikhtiar Kazi
First published in http://opinion.bdnews24.com
Like many other concerned citizens of the world, I was stunned by the news that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has been sacked by the government of Bangladesh, from his position of managing director (Head) ...
By Munir Quddus
The unseemly manner in which the current government of Bangladesh has sought to remove Professor Yunus from his position as head of the Grameen Bank is a sad spectacle. It seems the government, for reasons one can only guess, is determined to destroy wo...
By Nofel Wahid
I am sure you have heard of that rather amusing philosophical paradox, "What happens when an irresistible force meets an immoveable object?" We obviously do not know the answer to that paradox, but not because of lack of curiosity. Which leads me to quer...
By M Shahidul Islam
Following the removal of its founder Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank, growing concerns about the future of the bank are prompting some depositors to withdraw their savings. Indeed many analysts and industry experts cautioned that a sudden exit ...
By Eliot Daley
Ask any American what they know about Bangladesh, and you're likely to hear one of two things: 1) It's a pitifully backward place cursed with floods and droughts and overpopulation and insuperable poverty; and/or 2) It's the very fortunate place where s...
