Shawdesh Desk:

Bangladesh government has appointed senior secretary to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division Md Mahbub Hossain as the new cabinet secretary.

The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Md Khairuzzaman Mozumder, additional secretary to the Finance Division, has been made secretary to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, said another notification of the ministry.

Md Mahbub Hossain will replace the incumbent cabinet secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, who was appointed in the post on December 10, 2022 but joined a few days later replacing Khandaker Anwarul Islam, who went on post-retirement leave on December 15, 2022.

Kabir Bin Anwar is set to go on post-retirement leave from Wednesday.