Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead interim government in Bangladesh

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The decision, made during a meeting with Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinators and military leaders, will be followed by consultations with political parties to finalize the rest of the interim government members..

Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus has been appointed as the head of Bangladesh's interim government by President Mohammed Shahabuddin, the president's press secretary said on Tuesday night..

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate who is also known as the "banker to the poorest of the poor" and was once called a bloodsucker" by Hasina...

During the investigations, Hasina accused Yunus of using force and other means to recover loans from poor rural women as the head of Grameen Bank..

In a 2004 interview with The Associated Press, Yunus said he had a eureka movement to establish Grameen Bank when he met a poor woman weaving bamboo stools who was struggling pay her debts...