04 January
Yunus honored by Prime Miniser Narendra Modi


Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, presenting a gold medal to Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus for "giving the poorest a life of hope, opportunity and dignity" at the opening ceremony of the 102nd Indian Science Congress in the presence of 12,000 delegates in Mumbai on January 3. Also seen in the photo are Indian Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Harsh Vardhan and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conferred a laurel wreath to honour Nobelist faculty member Muhammad Yunus at the gap ceremony of the 102nd Indian Science Congress in Mumbai on three Jan.
Professor Yunus at the side of four alternative Alfred Nobel Laureates and 5 scientists from India received the laurel wreath throughout the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress within the presence of over twenty,000 sturdy audience together with Ministers, Chief Ministers, leading scientists, Vice Chancellors of dozens of Indian Universities and delegates from India and abroa

31 December
Happy New Year 2015

   

28 December
Yunus as the 5th Global Thought Leader 2014  



Nobel Laureate prof Muhammad Yunus, founding father of Grameen Bank in Bangla Desh, pioneer of Social Business, has been stratified fifth among international prestigious thinkers within the international Thought Leader 2014 survey applied by the Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic and Social Studies (GDI) and MIT Sloan college research worker Peter Gloor.
They have done the “Global Thought Leaders” ranking, through a scientific analysis of the English-speaking infosphere to work out the highest a hundred most prestigious thinkers within the world.
The list includes people UN agency square measure influencing the approach we expect these days, whose concepts square measure determinant ours and whose concepts interact individuals most often. they're the foremost prestigious thinkers. With the assistance of software-based calculations to provide a straightforward "influence rank", Gloor presents the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking. It measures the world importance of inventive minds.
The top position within the list was Pope Francis, once being enclosed for the primary time within the initial choice method, this year. he's followed in second position by "Pope of the Internet" Tim Berners-Lee. In third and fourth places severally square measure the Indian social scientist Amartya fractional monetary unit and Czech author metropolis Kundera.
Those occupying sixth through tenth positions on the list square measure control by writer Mario writer, man of science Gell-Mann, writer Paulo Coelho, social scientist Jane Goodall and author mother-in-law Klein.
The top a hundred of 2014 international thought leaders ranking were derived from an inventory of 236 individuals from round the world UN agency invite additional discourse through their concepts.
This list may be filtered consistent with position, gender, field of data and age. Clicking on a person’s head opens a window with details on it person and their field, as seen within the following link that reveals the 2014 ranking within the web site of urban center primarily based newspaper Tagesanzeiger:
http://longform.tagesanzeiger.ch/vordenker/?lang=en#rankingglobal    
22 December
Giant Chinese Internet Company Joins Hands with Grameen China


Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus shaking hands with Mr Richard Liu, Founder-Owner of JD.com after the signing of collaboration agreement between Grameen China and JD.com. Also seen in the photo are Professor Xu Xiaonian of CEIBS (left) and Mr. Tang Min, Vice Secretary General of China Development Research Foundation
Nobel Laureate prof Muhammad Yunus visited China from fifteen Gregorian calendar month to nineteen Gregorian calendar month 2015. He was invited to launch Grameen China and attend variety of high-level events organized by the Chinese Association of Microfinance (CAM)./

On Gregorian calendar month fifteen, prof Yunus was the chief guest at the annual microcredit conference organized by CAM that was attended by 700 microcredit practioners, academics, policy manufacturers, company executives, students among others.

Afterwards prof Yunus had a high level meeting with Madam Wu UN agency was former Deputy Governor of the financial organization and is currently the Chairman of the People’s Congress Committee on Rural Finance workplace at the financial organization of China to debate concerning finance for the poor in China at her workplace within the financial organization.

  21 December
 New Social Businesses from the 41st Social Business Design Lab

Nobel laureate Professor Yunus with nine Nobin Udyoktas, second generation of Grameen Bank borrowers, who signed agreements to receive financing from Grameen Shakti Samajik Byobasha for their businesses during the 41st Social Business Design Lab.
The 41st Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 20 December 2014 at the Grameen Bank Bhaban. As before the half day long program was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, and brought together more than 130 participations from Bangladesh and abroad coming  from diverse backgrounds. The event was also live streamed by Yunus Centre and watched online by participants around the globe.

Professor Yunus welcomed the participants to the Lab and updated the audience  that 496 social business projects had been  presented in the 40 labs organized to date since January 2013, of which 471 had been approved for investment, most of which were already in operation.

30 May  
Muhammad Yunus: 'be clear what you want when mixing profit and social



Following the recent building collapse in Bangladesh, the 'godfather' of micro finance talks about the garment industry, corporate social responsibility and startingup a social enterprise.