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Bangladesh: Yunus's 'Grameen' network has links with financiers of Al-Qaeda, says Report
Dhaka/New Delhi, Nov 27: An investigative report published by Blitz, a leading Bangladesh weekly, has alleged that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus's global 'Grameen' network has long-standing connections with individuals identified by Western intelligence agencies as financiers of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network.
Did Muhammad Yunus hijack famed microcredit model? Decades-old documents raise many questions
New Delhi, Nov 26: Muhammad Yunus, widely recognised as the founder of Bangladesh’s conglomerate Grameen Bank is set to come under the cloud, over ‘revelations’ of decades-old documents by a former intelligence officer, which claims that the microcredit model was actually a university research program and it was subsequently hijacked by the Nobel Laureate and “projected as his ownâ€.
Author Taslima Nasreen urges Nobel Committee to 'introspect' over giving Nobel Peace Prize to B'desh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus
New Delhi, July 25: Exiled Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen has asked the Nobel Committee to introspect over its decision of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, "for tarnishing the prestigious award's reputation by spreading unrest in the South Asian country".
Bangladesh's former minister alleges Muhammad Yunus, his associates had prosperous 7.5 months
Dhaka, March 28: Bangladesh's former Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Mohammad A Arafat, has claimed that Bangladesh's economy may be tanking, hundreds of thousands may have lost their livelihoods, inflation may be out of control but Bangladesh's Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, and his confidants have had a very "prosperous seven and a half months."