Professor ABM Obaidul Islam
Professor ABM Obaidul Islam, the current vice-chancellor (VC) of Bangladesh Open University (BOU), has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of University of Dhaka.
Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon announced the decision at a press conference at the Ministry of Education on Monday.
Prof Obaidul Islam is a professor in the Department of Physics at Dhaka University.
Earlier, Niaz Ahmed Khan, on 22 February, had sent a letter to the president seeking to resign from the post of vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
He had been appointed the VC of Dhaka University in August 2024, a few days after the fall of the Awami League government following the student-led mass uprising.
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