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Tarique greets Yunus marking his 85th birth anniv
Published : Saturday, 28 June, 2025 at 8:28 PM, Count : 340

Tarique greets Yunus marking his 85th birth anniv

Tarique greets Yunus marking his 85th birth anniv

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has greeted Chief Adviser Prof Mohammad Yunus on the occasion of his 85th birth anniversary.
Tarique, now staying in London, sent a bucket of flowers and a cake to the chief adviser, seeking good health of the octogenarian Nobel Laureate.
ABM Abdus Sattar, private secretary to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, handed over the compliments to Maj Gen (Retd) Ferdousi Hasan Selim, military secretary to the chief adviser, around 6 pm on Saturday.
After receiving the floral tributes, the chief adviser expressed his gratitude to the BNP leader.

He was born on 28 June, 1940, in Bathua village of Hathazari upazila of Chattogram. For a decade and a half, his birthday has been celebrated globally as Social Business Day.
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said that there is no official programme to mark the birthday. The birthday will not be celebrated at the government level, he said.
The two-day 'Social Business Day' was inaugurated at Zirabo Social Convention Centre in Savar, Dhaka on Friday.
Prof Yunus was the chief guest at the event. However, there was no arrangement to celebrate the chief adviser's birthday at the event.

Economist Prof Yunus is the only Nobel laureate from Bangladesh. His microfinance banking, without collateral to alleviate poverty, has brought him worldwide fame. The Grameen Bank he founded also has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
After Sheikh Hasina came to power in 2009, Prof Yunus was removed from Grameen Bank. During the Awami League regime, Prof Yunus was plagued by oblique criticism of the then Prime Minister and he was sued.
When Sheikh Hasina fled on 5 August last year in the face of the student-people uprising, an interim government, led by Prof Yunus, was formed on 8 August 2025.
At the request of the student leaders of the uprising, Prof Yunus took the charge of the interim government.
His government is working to restore the collapsed law and order and the devastated economy.
It is trying to reform various sectors including the constitution, elections, police, judiciary and public administration.
Prof Yunus's father is Dula Miah Sawdagar and mother's name is Sufia Khatun.
His wife is Prof Afrozi Yunus and he has two daughters.
Prof Yunus was a very talented student in studies. He secured 16th position out of 39,000 students in the matriculation examination from the Collegiate School in Chattogram.
He studied at Chittagong College for higher secondary. After graduating in economics from Dhaka University, Prof Yunus joined Chittagong College as a lecturer in economics in 1961.
Prof Yunus received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States in 1965. He obtained PhD degree in economics from the Graduate Programme in Economic Development at Vanderbilt University in 1971.
Later, he joined Middle Tennessee State University in the USA as an assistant professor of economics.
During the Great Liberation War in 1971, he was a member of a citizen committee in the United States.





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