Yunus lived in a tiny apartment, which I believe had two or three small rooms, with his daughter and wife inside the Grameen compound. We weren't really allowed to venture there, although I always ...

Prof. Mohammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s interim government, is caught in an impossible dilemma. Recently, in a closed meeting of the Advisory Council, Yunus himself admitted that he is ...

Yunus ultimately did not move forward with forming the party. In 2011, Bangladesh’s government-controlled central bank removed Yunus as managing director of Grameen Bank, saying he had exceeded ...

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 interim leader Muhammad Yunus claims he asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to block Sheikh Hasina’s online speeches — but Modi refused, saying, “It’s social media, you ...

Bangladesh's de-facto prime minister has threatened to step down if political parties cannot agree on reforms that citizens await with growing impatience, a top student leader has said, deepening ...

Bangladesh's interim chief Mohammad Yunus on Thursday said peace is becoming elusive in Asia and beyond, with wars and man-made conflicts destroying the lives and livelihoods of thousands.

But hours after Hasina's ouster on Aug. 5, Yunus received a phone call. He was asked to serve as special advisor to the interim government. It was a "very strange turn of events," he told NPR's ...

B angladesh’s leader Muhammad Yunus has been acquitted in a graft case filed by the nation’s Anti-Corruption Commission, just days after he was sworn in to run an interim government following ...

Muhammad Yunus, who received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the use of microcredit to alleviate poverty, told NBC News that the charges are politically motivated.

Indeed, more than 1,500 people were killed in clashes between protesters and security forces during July and August and many more wounded. (In addition, Yunus claims 3,500 people were ...