The Islamic University鈥檚 former vice-chancellor Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari has been appointed as new director general of the Bangla Academy for the next three years.
The public administration ministry issued a gazette notification to the effect on Thursday.
Rashid Askari, who previously served the IU in Kushtia as its 12th VC, joined the university as lecturer in English in 1990.
