Sonali Bank Limited shareholders have approved adopting a new name, Sonali Bank PLC, in an extraordinary general meeting held at the bank's head office in Dhaka yesterday.

Ziaul Hasan Siddiqui, chairman of the board of directors, Md Afzal Karim, managing director, Tauhidul Islam, company secretary, and Badre Munir Firdaus, joint secretary to Financial Institutions Division of the finance ministry, were present, said a press release.