Kiran B. Vadodaria of Sambhaav Metro was elected president of Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2014-15 at its 75th annual general meeting on Friday.
P.V. Chandran ( Grihalakshmi ) will be the deputy president, Somesh Sharma ( Rashtradoot Saptahik ) the vice-president, Mohit Jain ( Economic Times ) the honorary treasurer and V. Shankaran the secretary-general of INS.
Other members of the executive committee are L. Adimoolam ( Health & The Antiseptic ), S.B. Aditiyan ( Maalai Malar ), Pawan Agarwal ( Dainik Bhaskar , Bhopal), Samahit Bal ( Pragativadi ), K. Balaji ( The Hindu ), V.K. Chopra ( Dainik Asam ), Vijay Kumar Chopra ( Punjab Kesari , Jalandhar), Rishi Darda ( Lokmat , Ahmednagar), Vijay Darda ( Lokmat ), Jagjit Singh Dardi ( Charhdikala daily), Ravindra Dhariwal ( Navbharat Times ), Viveck Goenka ( The Indian Express , Mumbai), Mahendra Mohan Gupta ( Dainik Jagran ), Pradeep Gupta ( Dataquest ), Sanjay Gupta ( Dainik Jagran , Varanasi), and Shailesh Gupta ( Mid-Day ).
Also on the executive committee are C.H. Kiron ( Vipula & Annadata ), R. Lakshmipathy ( Dinamalar ), Rajul Maheshwari ( Amar Ujala ), Jayant Mammen Mathew ( Malayala Manorama ), Vilas A. Marathe ( Dainik Hindusthan , Amravati), Naresh Mohan ( Sunday Statesman ), Abhijit Pratap Pawar ( Gomantak , Goa), RMR Ramesh ( Dinakaran ), K. Raja Prasad Reddy ( Sakshi , Vishakhapatnam), Rakesh Sharma ( Aaj Samaj ), Manoj Kumar Sonthalia ( The New Indian Express ), Akila Urankar ( Business Standard ), Kiran D. Thakur ( Tarun Bharat , Belgaum), M. Venkatesh ( Hindustan Times ), Vinay Verma ( The Tribune ), Pratap G. Pawar ( Sakal ), M. P. Veerendrakumar ( Mathrubhumi ), Jacob Mathew ( Vanitha ), Bahubali S. Shah ( Gujarat Samachar ), Hormusji N Cama ( Bombay Samachar weekly), T. Venkttaram Reddy ( Deccan Chronicle ), Kundan R. Vyas ( Vyapar , Mumbai), Ashish Bagga ( India Today ), K.N. Tilak Kumar ( Deccan Herald & Prajavani ), and Ravindra Kumar ( The Statesman ).