Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- Career diplomat Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury has taken charge as the new Foreign Secretary.

Officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday bade farewell to outgoing Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam and welcomed his successor Noman Chowdhury.

Siam, who assumed office on June 20 last year, is set to take up his new assignment as Bangladesh's High Commissioner to India in New Delhi.

Newly appointed Foreign Secretary Noman previously served as Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York before returning to the ministry's headquarters in Dhaka.

Ambassador Noman joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1998. Before his UN assignment, he served as Bangladesh's Ambassador to Nepal from Novemb...