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Thursday, April 9, 2026
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

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Western theatre against Pakistan to be headed by IAF, Northern theatre under Army to focus on China

India's military to get Vice Chief of Defence Staff along with one Theatre Commander from each of three services, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.