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By Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam I still remember the day when I met Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank for the first time. It was, I think, in 1998. He came to give a lecture at the University of Madrid, Spain. The huge conference room of the Medical ...

The University of Florence visited the Yunus Centre in September and began creating a social business centre at the University. Then in January, a memorandum of understanding was signed, making official the partnership between the University of Florence and the Yunus Ce...

By Fakhruddin Ahmed There was a time, not so long ago, when Bangladesh's name was synonymous with disasters. The calamities were either natural (cyclones or floods), or manmade (political assassinations or coup de tats). Former American Secretary of State, Dr. Henry K...

Twelve distinguished personalities in a statement here yesterday said some quarters are expressing and publishing opinions and news about Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, which do not focus the truth. They said that it seems the quarter is out to damage the image of...

DHAKA, Feb 24, 2011 (IPS) - Twenty-one years ago, Munni Akter and her husband Shafiuddin could hardly afford two meals a day. The couple lived in Savar, some 35 km from here, and had no income. That is, until they turned to the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (B...

Thirteen eminent citizens of the country yesterday said that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus is being harassed in various ways. In a joint statement they said Yunus is facing malicious personal attacks for his position and hence being subject of different allegations. T...

By Harun Ur Rashid Ershad certainly deserves encomium for volunteering to defend Nobel Laureate Dr Mohammad Yunus against the all-too-obvious spite spewed against him by his grand alliance partners ever since the Norwegian TV aired some nasty comments about his Grame...

By Hossain Zillur Rahman Once derided as a basket-case, Bangladesh now enjoys global attention for its economic resilience and social progress. Problems remain but the achievements speak for themselves. Gender parity has already been achieved in primary and secondary...

Some 56 years ago, Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus had been nominated for attending World Scouts Jamboree when he was a student of class X at Chittagong Collegiate School. When asked why he wanted to join the jamboree, 15-year-old Yunus told the chief national commi...

Nobel laureate and Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, who brought radical changes in the micro-credit area in his country by setting up the Grameen Bank, called for a separate regulatory mechanism for the Indian microfinance sector. "It is not about more or less reg...

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