HYDERABAD: T Venkattram Reddy, chairman of Deccan Chronicle, has been elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2009-10 at its 70th annual general meeting held here on Thursday. He succeeds Hormusji N Cama of Bombay Samahcar Weekly.
Kundan R Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai) is the deputy president while Ashis Bagga (India Today) is vice-president and Rakesh Sharma (Hindustan Times, Patna) is the honorary treasurer. V Shankaran will be the officiating secretary general of INS.
According to a news statement issued by Shankaran, the executive committee will have 41 members. They are: Dr BS Adityan (Vaarantari Rani), L Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic), Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal), Samahit Bal (Pragativadi), P V Chandran (Grihalakshmi), V K Chopra (Dainik Assam), Devendra Darda (Lokmat Times), Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily), Ravindra Dhariwal (Navbharat Times), Manajit Ghoshal (Mid-day Gujarati), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest), Ram Lakhan Gupta (Nishpaksh Samachar Jyoti), Shailesh Gupta (Loksatta, Mumbai), Sanjay Hazari (The Tribune), Mohit Jain (Economic Times), KN Tilak Kumar (Prajavani), Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman), Dr R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Atul Maaheshwari (Amar Ujala), Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Vilas A Marathe (Dainik Hindustan, Amaravati), Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman), Paresh Nath (Women’s Era), Abhijit Prtap Pawar (Gomantak, Goa), Maheshwer Peri (Outlook), RMR Ramesh (Dinakaran), Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik), Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (Kannada Prabha), C R Srinivasan (Sandhya Times), Kiran B Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro), M Venkatesh (Hindustan Times, New Delhi), Vijay Darda (Lokmat), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjabi Kesari, Jalandhar), Pratap G Pawar (Sakal), Abhay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia), MP Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi), Jacob Mathew (Vanitha), Bahubali S Shah (Gujarat Samachar) and Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar Weekly).
