Journalist Muhammad Kader Gani Chowdhury has been appointed managing director and editor-in-chief of the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the national news agency. The contract-based appointment was announced in a notification issued on Thursday, August 27, by the Contract and Foreign Appointment Branch of the Ministry of Public Administration.

The notification, signed by Ministry of Public Administration Deputy Secretary Md Golam Rabbani, said the appointment was made under Section 10(1) of the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Act, 2018. Chowdhury will serve in the two posts for one year from the date he joins.

The appointment is conditional on Chowdhury ending employment relationships with any other profession, business, or government, semi-government, private institution or organisation. The notification said the remaining terms of the appointment will be set through a contract document and that the order was issued in the public interest.