Dr. Munir Quddus
In recent months, the people of Bangladesh (and the world) have witnessed some momentous events. The opening ceremonies of world cricket match in Dhaka, the great people's uprising in the Middle East, the falling of autocrats Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak,...
By Muhammad Zafar Iqbal
I like Prof. Yunus a lot, and more than that I respect him. I also know that there are many like me. I remember, on hearing the news of Prof. Yunus' Nobel Prize I jumped about and screamed like a person gone mad with happiness. There......
A sudden exit of the Grameen Bank founder from its Board of Directors and a legal battle between its board and the government may dent borrowers' confidence, putting the organisation's future in doubt, said Sir Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday.
The chairperson of Brac, the w...
Says 20 distinguished citizens.
Twenty distinguished female personalities in a statement yesterday said Prof Muhammad Yunus' removal brings dishonour to the 20 million poor women who were empowered by Grameen Bank.
They demanded an end to this situation through a prop...
Over the past weeks, we have received many letters of support from our friends and well-wishers from all over the world expressing their support for Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your kind words of supp...
Washington, D.C. -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement on the possible removal of Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which he founded:
"I am deeply concer...
By Mahfuz Anam
Can a technicality be the main measure of judging a man of Yunus' stature?
So after all the talk of "blood sucking" and "siphoning off billions" the real guilt of our one and only Nobel Laureate and globally admired microcredit pioneer and Grameen B...
Today Professor Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh's Nobel Peace Laureate, Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, and 9 Directors of the Bank brought separate legal challenges in the High Court to orders of the Bangladesh Bank stating that he had been ‘relieved from his p...
