SM Haroon-or-Rashid

{{short description|Bangladeshi journalist}}{{other people5||Haroon Rashid (disambiguation)}}

{{infobox officeholder

|name=SM Haroon-or-Rashid

|office=Director General of Bangladesh Television

|term_start=14 January 2016

|predecessor=M Hamid{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/02/04/haroon-or-rashid-nesar-uddin-new-dgs-of-btv-betar|title=Haroon-or-Rashid, Nesar Uddin new DGs of BTV, Betar|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=2019-11-11|date=2016-02-04}}

|nationality=Bangladeshi

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1962}}

|birth_place=Sirajganj District, East Pakistan, Pakistan

|alma_mater=University of Dhaka

}}

SM Haroon-or-Rashid (known as Harun Rashid; born 1962) is a Bangladeshi journalist and dramatist.{{Cite web|url=http://btv.portal.gov.bd/site/biography/66756b56-23a9-42c1-b843-9e57806917fc|script-title=bn:মহাপরিচালক|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|language=bn-BD|access-date=2019-11-11}} He is the current Director General of Bangladesh Television since 14 January 2016. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Dialogue for the film Putro (2018).{{cite web|url=https://moi.gov.bd/site/notices/7b40fd90-0d74-43a2-9051-4dcf88ea0d74/National-Film-Award-2017-and-2018|title=National Film Award-2017 and 2018|website=Ministry of Information|access-date=2019-11-07}}

Education

Rashid completed his bachelor's and master's in mass communication and journalism from the University of Dhaka.

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