Overseas Correspondents Association Bangladesh gets new leadership

The Overseas Correspondents Association Bangladesh (OCAB), a platform of Dhaka-based journalists working for foreign media, has got a new leadership through election.

A committee was formed after the election which was held following the organisation's general meeting at the National Press Club on Friday, according to UNB.

Members elected German news agency DPA's Nazrul Islam Mithu and Bureau Chief of Associated Press (AP) Julhas Alam as the new president and general secretary respectively.

The general meeting was chaired by convener of the organisation Qadir Kallol. The election was conducted by senior journalists Shahjahan Sardar and Qadir Kallol, said a press release.

Shafiqul Alam of AFP was elected vice-President while Naeem-ul-Karim of Xinhua and Pulak Ghatak of Benar News elected as joint-secretary and treasurer, respectively of the organisation.

Besides, senior members of the organisation Harun Habib, Farid Hossain, Rafiqur Rahman, Parveen F Chowdhury, Mir Sabbir and Kamran Reza Chowdhury were elected as executive members of the new committee.

Some amendment proposals to the organisation's constitution and other organizational proposals were accepted unanimously in the general meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, the OCAB members adopted a condolence motion on the deaths of some members of the organisation and a minute silence was observed for the peace of their departed souls.