【引用:Five French personalities including former premier Michel Rocard have extended support for Grameen Bank and denounced the government's attempt to remove Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus from the country's most prestigious institution.】
【引用:Influential Americans believe their pressure on Dhaka against the ouster of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as head of Grameen Bank is working and cite the Bangladesh Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to put off a hearing on his appeal until March 22 as a reaction to these efforts.】
【引用:Twenty-six congresspeople of the United States have said they are troubled by the removal of Prof Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank, and urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resolve the issue through a mutual compromise.Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Supreme Court is scheduled today to he
【引用:The caucus, led by Representative Joseph Crowley, a Democrat from New York, credited Grameen and Yunus with doing "a great deal to improve lives.""We have raised these concerns directly with your government over the past few months, but the situation has not changed," they wrote.】
【引用:Lord Avebury, vice-chair of the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group, has said the removal of Grameen founder Prof Muhammad Yunus by the government from his post raises serious concerns about the creeping politicisation of development work and civil society in Bangladesh. 】
【引用:With regard to the High Court's verdict on the writ petition filed by Dr Muhammad Yunus, Finance Minister Abul Maal Adbul Muhith said Wednesday: "I am happy with the High Court's judgement. Finally, it has been proved what I said earlier was true". 】
【引用:"Our friends outside may or may not be happy but we will take action in accordance with our law. The rule of law in our country does not depend on others' happiness," she said when asked about the remarks of Robert O Blake, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affa
【引用:Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus yesterday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in a final attempt to stay as the managing director of Grameen Bank he founded nearly three decades ago. In the appeal filed with Supreme Court chamber judge Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Dr Yunus sought a s
【引用:US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backed Grameen Bank's independence in a telephone call to Prof Muhammad Yunus, her spokesman said."Secretary Clinton spoke yesterday with Dr Muhammad Yunus and expressed support for the independence of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh," Clinton spokesm
【引用:The High Court yesterday upheld Bangladesh Bank's "removal" of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the post of Grameen Bank's managing director.He will appeal against the verdict with the Supreme Court, his lawyers said.】
【引用:Counsels for Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus yesterday argued that there is no legal bar for him to continue as the managing director of Grameen Bank since the Bangladesh Bank's directive to remove him was illegal.The removal of Yunus without any show-cause notice was a violation of law
【引用:US Senator John Kerry says he is "deeply concerned" by efforts to remove Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank he founded and urged the Bangladesh government and Nobel laureate to reach a compromise.The 70-year-old economist was abruptly sacked as managing director of Dhaka-based Grameen
【引用:Finance Minister AMA Muhith will sit today with ambassadors of different countries and representatives of multilateral agencies to make clear the government's stance on Grameen Bank and its founder Prof Muhammad Yunus. On behalf of the minister, Shafiqur Rahman Patwari, secretary of the
【引用:Dr Muhammad Yunus, the man who brought a Nobel Prize for Bangladesh, and the most celebrated living Bangladeshi around the globe, was unceremoniously relieved of his duties at Grameen Bank yesterday through a Bangladesh Bank letter.】
【引用:Bangladesh's central bank piled pressure on Tuesday on Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to quit microlender Grameen Bank, saying he had to retire, echoing a demand for him to step down from the finance minister. 】
【引用:The US officials have told Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that 'there will be no further high-level diplomatic interaction' until the 'harassment' of Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus ends, a media report claimed Monday. This could include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's