Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is the Founder and Director of Grameen Bank dubbed “the bank of the poor”. The organisation was established in Bangladesh in 1983 and has helped more than 3 millions Bangladeshis obtain credit.
Bangladesh and India launched large-scale relief operations after a cyclone spawned a a four-metre surge that devastated the northern Bay of Bengal on Monday, killing at least 126 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
At least 94 people have died after a cyclone slammed into the coasts of Bangladesh and India on Monday. Emergency services are scrambling to deliver food and shelter to the hundreds of thousands of people still marooned.
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A high-rise office building containing a shopping mall caught on fire in the Bangladesh capital of Bashundhara City. Officials claim the mall was evacuated. At least one firefighter died, with several injuries.
Bangladesh's security forces claimed on Tuesday to have arrested Touhidul Alam, the "ringleader" behind a mutiny by border troops that has left at least 56 border guards dead. Four other mutineers were arrested in relation to the case.
Security officials said Sunday that a nationwide operation would be launched on Monday to track down more than 1,000 soldiers listed as "wanted" for their involvement in a deadly mutiny that has killed at least 80.
According to an ongoing police investigation into last week's Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troop mutiny, over 1,000 soldiers are wanted for their role in an uprising that killed at least 80 people.
Officials recovered 10 more bodies from a second mass grave on Saturday, with "many more" remaining. A day earlier the bodies of 38 murdered officers of the Bangladesh Rifles were found. The toll of the mutiny now stands at 76.
A mass grave of at least 38 murdered officers of the Bangladesh Rifles was found on Friday after the surrender of mutineer soldiers. Another 28 bodies had already been found, with nearly 200 fleeing soldiers arrested.
