Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, 84, could be sworn in as the country’s new leader as soon as Thursday evening to begin what the army chief […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday overturned a conviction against Mohammed Yunus. “Professor Muhammad Yunus and three of his colleagues have been acquitted of labour charges,” one of his lawyers, Khaja Tanvir Ahmed, told AFP. “The court earlier this year sentenced them to six months in prison.R...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The key coordinators of the student movement that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee Bangladesh announced Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as the chief advisor of the interim government on Tuesday. In a video posted on social media, key coordinator Nahid Islam along with two other coordinators said “we have decid...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Thursday that several of his firms were forcibly taken over, weeks after his conviction in a criminal case his supporters say was politically motivated. Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank but has earn...
