FILE - Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, center, speaks to the media in Dhaka, May 23, 2024. Yunus has been chosen to head Bangladesh's interim government after the nation's prime minister ...

Professor Muhammad Yunus is gesturing in front of the court after being sentenced to six months of imprisonment in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 1, 2024. Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Muhammad Yunus, 84, is heading an interim government following the toppling of the South Asian country’s prime minister and dissolution of parliament, according to the Bangladesh president’s ...

Muhammad Yunus arrived in Bangladesh from an overseas trip as he looks to restore calm and rebuild the country following an uprising that ended the rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

MUHAMMAD YUNUS: (As himself) I'm Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. And oh, yeah, I'm also the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will take the lead role in guiding Bangladesh through its new transitory period, after mass student-led protests pushed the nation’s longtime prime minister to ...

Mr. Yunus, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in microfinance, is widely respected in Bangladesh. The ousted prime minister largely saw him as a threat.

FILE- Muhammad Yunus, an economist from Bangladesh who founded the Grameen Bank and won a Nobel Peace Prize, is seen at the end of a press conference in Paris Monday Feb. 18, 2008.

Bangladesh is in the midst of political upheaval after PM Sheikh Hasina's dramatic ejection from power. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is now set to head an interim government.