US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw her support on Sunday behind microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus on a visit to Bangladesh, calling the embattled Nobel laureate a global inspiration.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his government will closely monitor the developments regarding Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus' removal from Grameen Bank and will take up the issue with the Ba

The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing on the two petitions filed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and nine Grameen Bank directors challenging Yunus' removal as the bank's managin

Bangladesh's Nobel-winning Muhammad Yunus lost a final appeal on Tuesday against his sacking from the pioneering microfinance bank he founded and reportedly told his staff it was ‘time to leave.’

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Bangladesh's Supreme Court adjourned a hearing on Tuesday on whether Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who has fallen out with the government, was illegally removed from his pioneering ‘microfinance’ ban

Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court is due to rule on Tuesday on whether microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus was illegally sacked from his own bank in a clash between the Nobel laureate and the country's autho

Bangladesh: day after he was sacked as the chief of the Grameen Bank, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus today challenged his removal in the High Court.

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Jan. 27: The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Muhammad Yunus, appeared in a court on Thursday in the latest legal trouble for the pioneer of microfinance loans — this time over claims of contaminated yogh

Dec. 9: Norway has given a clean chit to the Nobel laureate, Mr Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank that was charged with embezzlement and unauthorised transfer of funds of a Norwegian aid agency, an officia

Reliance Industries chief, Mr Mukesh Ambani, has been named by the United Nations to a key advocacy group on Millennium Development Goals, whose mandate includes finding ways to fight socio-economic e