Somesh Sharma of Rashtradoot Saptahik was today elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for the year 2016-17 its 77th Annual General Meeting here.
He succeeds P V Chandran of Grihalakshmi (Mathrubhumi Group), according to an INS press release.
Akila Urankar (Business Standard) is the new Deputy President, K Balaji (The Hindu Weekly) Vice President and Sharad Saxena (Hindustan Times) Honorary Treasurer of INS for the year 2016-17, it said.
V Shankaran will continue to be the INS Secretary General.
The other members of the Executive Committee are:
L Adimoolam (Health and The Antiseptic), S Balasubramaniam Adityan (Daily Thanthi), Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal), Samahit Bal (Pragativadi), V K Chopra (Dainik Asam), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjab Kesri, Jalandhar), Vijay Jawaharlal Darda (Lokmat), Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily), Viveck Goenka (The Indian Express, Mumbai), Mohit Jain (Economic Times), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest).
Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi), Shailesh Gupta
(Mid-Day), Raj Kumar Jain (Navbharat Times), C H Kiron (Vipula and Annadata), R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Rajul Maheshwari (Amar Ujala), Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayalam Manorama), Vilas A Marathe (Dainik Hindustan, Amravati), Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman), Anant Nath (Grihshobhika, Marathi) Pratap G Pawar (Sakal), D D Purkayastha (Anand Bazar Patrika) RMR Ramesh (Dinakaran), K Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi, Vishakhapatnam), Indranil Roy (Outlook).
Rakesh Sharma (Aaj Samaj), Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (The New Indian Express), Kiran D Thakur (Tarun Bharat, Belgaum), Vinay Verma (The Tribune), M P Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi), Jacob Mathew (Vanitha), Bahubali S Shah (Gujarat Samachar), Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar Weekly), Kundan R Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai), Ashish Bagga (India Today), K N Tilak Kumar (Deccan Herald and Prajavani), Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman), Kiran B Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro) and P V Chandran (Grehalakshmi).
