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police van transports protesters to the court, after their arrest in Dhaka on July 23, 2024. The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh passed the 2,500 mark in an AFP tally on July 23, after protests over employment quotas sparked widespread unrest. | Photo Credit: AFP The number of arrests in days…
Illustration: Sreejith R.Kumar Muhammad Yunus and his grassroots Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for lending a social conscience to capitalism and “their efforts to create economic and social development from below” in Bangladesh. At 83, the “banker to the poor” does not appear to be slowing down. He strives, he asserts,…
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus along with his lawyers at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) office in Dhaka on October 5. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: In May this year, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against several members of the board of directors of Grameen Telecom, that included Nobel laureate Dr. Mohammad…
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. File | Photo Credit: AP Outrage is growing as Muhammad Yunus, the chairman of Grameen Telecom, faces a barrage of court cases tied to employment-related violations in what rights organisations called harassment of the Nobel laureate by the Bangladesh government. A criminal case that alleges three breaches under the…