Bangladesh’s microcredit pioneer and Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed Yunus is set to star in a special episode of hit American TV series The Simpsons, his office said on Monday.
Yunus’s office said in a statement the episode in October would focus on Grameen’s micro-credit work, which has helped lift millions of people out of poverty in Bangladesh and across the globe. “The recording of Professor Yunus’s voice has already been done and the episode is ready to go on air,” it said, adding that Yeardley Smith who voices Lisa’s character in the serial was currently Dhaka.
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Paresh, wife pledge to donate skin
Mumbai: In a rare gesture, actor Paresh Rawal and his wife Swaroop Sampat have signed up to donate their skin.
The couple have taken up the brand ambassadorship for skin donation awareness to help the cause of burn victims. The celebrity couple are closely associated with the National Burn Institute’s (NBI) Skin Bank and had recently signed up to donate their skin, Dr Shilpa Karnik said.
“Skin donation can be done after a person’s death and our retrieval team take out one eighth of the skin from lower extremities and back,” she said. —PTI