Dhaka, April 26 -- Journalist Syed Abdal Ahmed has been appointed the principal information officer of the Press Information Department (PID) on a one-year contract.

The public administration ministry issued a notification on Sunday appointing Abdal, executive editor of the daily Amar Desh, to the post.

The order said he would serve in Grade-1 status and must relinquish any employment, business or professional ties with any government, semi-government, private institution or organisation before taking up the role.

It added that the remaining terms and conditions of the appointment would be set out in the contract.

Born in 1962 in Nasirpur village of Nasirnagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria, Syed Abdal studied chemistry at Jahangirnagar Univ...