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The third of nine children, [15] Muhammad Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Bengali family of Muslim Saudagars in the village of Bathua, by the Kaptai road at Hathazari in the Chittagong District of Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh). [16] [17] His father was Haji Muhammad Dula Mia Soudagar, a jeweller, and his mother was Sufia Khatun. His ...
Muhammad Yunus Choudhury was born in 1906 to a Bengali Muslim family of Choudhuries in the village of Rahimpur in Hathazari, Chittagong District, Bengal Presidency. His father, Abdul Jabbar Choudhury, was a zamindar and his mother, Begum Riazunnesa, was a housewife. The family were descended from Abu Bakr, the 1st Caliph of Islam. His father ...
Monica Yunus was born in 1977 in Chattogram, Bangladesh to Muhammad Yunus, an economist and his then wife, Vera Forostenko, the daughter of Russian immigrants to Trenton, New Jersey. She has one younger half-sister, Dina Yunus. [3] Yunus' parents met in 1967 while attending Vanderbilt University. They were married in 1970.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh, and also is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Mohammad Younus (or variants such as Mohammad , Mohammed , Muhammad and Yunus , Younis ) may refer to:
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who took over this month as head of the government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country to India amid a mass uprising, signed ...
Yunus grew to global renown in the 1970s for pioneering poverty-reducing microcredit. What began with a single $5 loan to a woman weaving bamboo stools in his home city of Chittagong has since ...
DHAKA (Reuters) -Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus made an emotional return home to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a new interim government after weeks of student protests forced Prime Minister ...
On 5 August 2024, Bangladesh's longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following the non-cooperation movement.It was a pro-democratic disinvestment movement and mass uprising, of which the sole demand was the resignation of Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet, initiated within the framework of the month-long quota reform movement resulting in mass killings.