Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 29: Jayant Mammen Mathew of Malayala Manorama was elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for the year 2018-19 at its Annual General Meeting held at Bengaluru.
Shailesh Gupta (Mid-Day) is deputy president, L Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic) is vice-president and Sharad Saxena (Hindustan Times, Patna) is the honorary treasurer of the society for the year 2018-19. Lav Saksena is the secretary general of the Society.
Other members of the executive committee of the Society are S Balasubramaniam Adityan (Daily Thanthi), Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal), Samahit Bal (Pragativadi), VK Chopra (Dainik Asam), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjab Kesari, Jalandhar), Karan Rajendra Darda (Lokmat, Aurangabad), Vijay Jawaharlal Darda (Lokmat, Nagpur), Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily), Vivek Goenka (The Indian Express, Mumbai), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest), Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi), Mohit Jain (Economic Times), Sarvinder Kaur (Ajit), CH Kiron (Vipula & Annadata), MV Shreyams Kumar (Mathrubhumi Arogya Masika), Dr R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Vilas A Marathe (Dainik Hindustan, Amravati), Harsha Mathew (Vanitha), Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman), Anant Nath (Grihshobhika, Marathi), Sumanta Pal (Amar Ujala), Pratap G Pawar (Sakal), DD Purkayastha (Ananda Bazar Patrika), RMR Ramesh (Dinakaran), K Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi, Vishakhapatnam), Atideb Sarkar (The Telegraph), Rakesh Sharma (Aaj Samaj), Kiran D Thakur (Tarun Bharat, Belgaum), Biju Varghese (Mangalam Weekly), Rajiv Verma (Hindustan Times, New Delhi), Vinay Verma (The Tribune), Bahubali S Shah (Gujarat Samachar), Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar Weekly), Kundan R Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai), KN Tilak Kumar (Deccan Herald & Prajavani), Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman), Kiran B Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro), PV Chandran (Grehalaksmi), Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik) and Akila Urankar (Business Standard).