Ravindra Kumar of The Statesman newspaper has been elected as president of the Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2013-14 at its 74th annual general meeting held here on Friday. He succeeds K N Tilak Kumar of Deccan Herald & Prajavani.
Kiran B Vadodaria of Sambhaav Metro is the new deputy president and P V Chandran of Grihalakshmi is the vice-president. Sanjay Gupta of Dainik Jagran, Varanasi is the new honorary treasurer of the society.
V Shankaran has been elected as the secretary general.
The other members of the executive committee of the INS are L Adimoolam of Health & The Antiseptic, Pawan Agarwal of Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal , Samahit Bal of Pragativadi, K Balaji of The Hindu Weekly, V K Chopra of Dainik Asam, Rishi Darda of Lokmat, Ahmednagar, Vijay Darda of Lokmat, Jagjit Singh Dardi of Charhdikala Daily, Ravindra Dhariwal of Navbharat Times, Viveck Goenka of The Indian Express, Mumbai, Mahendra Mohan Gupta of Dainik Jagran, Pradeep Gupta of Dataquest, Shailesh Gupta of Mid-Day, Mohit Jain of Economic Times, C H Kiron of Vipula & Annadata, R Lakshmipathy of Dinamalar, Rajul Maheshwari of Amar Ujala, Jayant Mammen Mathew of Malayala Manorama, Vilas A Marathe of Dainik Hindusthan, Amravati, Naresh Mohan of Sunday Statesman, Abhijit Pratap Pawar of Gomantak, Goa, Maheshwer Peri of Outlook, R M R Ramesh of Dinakaran, K Raja Prasad Reddy of Sakshi, Vishakhapatnam, Rakesh Sharma of Aaj Samaj, Somesh Sharma of Rashtradoot Saptahik, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia of The New Indian Express, Kiran D Thakur of Tarun Bharat, Belgaum, Akila Urankar of Business Standard, M Venkatesh of Hindustan Times, Vinay Verma of The Tribune, Vijay Kumar Chopra of Punjabi Kesari, Jalandhar, Pratap G Pawar of Sakal, M P Veerendrakumar of Mathrubhumi, Jacob Mathew of Vanitha, Bahubali S Shah of Gujarat Samachar, Hormusji N Cama of Bombay Samachar Weekly, T Venkttaram Reddy of Deccan Chronicle, Kundan R Vyas of Vyapar, Mumbai, Ashish Bagga of India Today and K N Tilak Kumar of Deccan Herald & Prajavani.