Dhaka, Aug 27 (V7N) – Sheikh Bashiruddin, Advisor to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

The appointment was confirmed in a notification signed by Mahfuza Jerin, Senior Assistant Secretary of the Ministry’s Biman-1 Branch, on Tuesday (August 26). The order, issued in the public interest, has been made effective immediately.

Sheikh Bashiruddin is currently serving as an advisor to the Commerce and Textiles and Jute ministries under the interim government. He was first assigned to these two ministries on November 10 last year, and later, on April 15, he was also given additional charge of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.

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