Rubin, in his recent article for 19FortyFive, suggested that Yunus, renowned for his pioneering work in microfinance, is now overseeing actions that suppress journalistic freedom and enable ...

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has launched a scathing attack on the country’s interim leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, accusing him of betraying Bangladesh by ...

Decades earlier, Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh to empower the most marginalized communities through small loans, helping millions—97% of them women—build businesses, sustain ...

Muhammad Yunus, leader of Bangladesh’s interim government, gestures to the Rohingya people as he attends a Ramadan solidarity iftar at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on ...

MUHAMMAD YUNUS IS a broken man. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner has been hounded out of the microfinance institution (MFI) he founded in 1976 by a belligerent and vengeful Bangladeshi government.

Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, took over as interim head of the South Asian nation of 173 million last August after a student-led uprising forced then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to ...

Muhammad Yunus has struggled to navigate between the army, career politicians and the protest movement that overthrew the country’s authoritarian leader last year. By Saif Hasnat Reporting from ...

Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, faces mounting discontent among citizens and discord among political parties over its plans for elections.

Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has indicated that a national election could take place as early as the week before Ramadan begins in February, should reforms advance sufficiently in ...

Why Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus Must Hold Elections Soon A democratically elected political government would have more legitimacy than the interim administration to move the country forward.

Bangladesh will hold elections in early April 2026 for the first time since a mass uprising overthrew the government last year, interim leader Muhammad Yunus said Friday.

Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh, meets with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, Mar. 28, 2025. Credit: Interim Government of Bangladesh ...