Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari takes charge as Bangla Academy DG

Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari took charge as the Director General (DG) of the Bangla Academy.

He took the charge on Wednesday (July 24) after the public administration ministry issued a gazette notification on Thursday (July 18).

Earlier, the government appointed Islamic University’s former vice-chancellor Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari as the Director General of the Bangla Academy for the next three years.

Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari, who previously served the IU in Kushtia as its 12th VC, joined the university as lecturer in English in 1990.