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Sunday, September 21, 2025
TopicMicro finance

Topic: Micro finance

Who is Amjad Saqib, the Pakistani microfinance pioneer honoured with 2021 Magsaysay Award

Muhammad Amjad Saqib founded the Akhuwat Foundation, one of the largest MFIs in Pakistan. It offers loan packages to the poor, distributing the equivalent of $900 million.

Economists must stop looking at rural India as just labour supply tool post Covid: Yunus

Now is a good time to integrate the most crucial feature missing in the Indian micro-finance system — running it as a social business, writes Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

Micro-financiers get dos and don’ts list for polls — how to behave with EC & cash limit

M-FIN, a body for micro-finance firms, issues guidelines directing members to carry proper documentation of cash and not to carry over Rs 50,000.

On Camera

Ahmedabad’s Calico Museum took away my phone. And then something magical happened

Without my phone, I wasn't thinking about capturing some beautiful textiles for my ‘inspiration gallery’. I was fully present, taking in the colours and patterns on display.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.