Deccan Herald's KN Tilak Kumar replaces Ashish Bagga as new Indian Newspaper Society President

BANGALORE: KN Tilak Kumar of Deccan Herald group was today elected as President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS) succeeding Ashish Bagga of India Today.

At the 73rd Annual General Meeting of INS here, Kumar was chosen as President, The Statesman's Ravindra Kumar as Deputy President and Kira B Vadadaria of Sambhaav Metro as the Vice President for the year 2012-13.

While Sanjay Gupta of Dainik Jagran, Varanasi was elected Honorary Treasurer of the Society, V Shankaran is the new Secretary-General, according to an INS statement.

Other members of the Executive Committee of the INS are Dr B S Adityan (Varantari Rani), L Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic), Pawan Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal), Samahit Bal (Pragativadi), K Balaji (The Hindu Weekly), P V Chandran (Grihalakshmi), V K Chopra (Dainik Asam), Rishi Darda (Lokmat, Ahmednagar) and Vijay Darda (Lokmat).

Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily), Ravindra Dhariwal (Navbharat Times), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest), Shailesh Gupta (Mid-Day), Shekhar Gupta (Loksatta, Mumbai), Sanjay Hazari (The Tribune), Mohit Jain (Economic Times), R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Rajul Maheshwari (Amar Ujala) and Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama) are some of the other members.

Other members are Vilas A Marathe (Dainik Hindustan, Amravati), Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman), Abhijit Pratap Pawar (Gomantak, Goa), Maheshwer Peri (Outlook), R M R Ramesh (Dinakaran), K Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi, Vishakhapatnam), Rakesh Sharma (Aaj Samaj), Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik), Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (The New Indian Express) and Akila Urankar (Business Standard).

M Venkatesh (Hindustan Times), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjab Kesari, Jalandhar), Pratap G Pawar (Sakal), Abhay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia), M P Veerandrakumar (Mathrubhumi), Jacob Mathew (Vanitha), Bahubali S Shah (Gujarat Samachar), Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar Weekly), T Venkattram Reddy (Deccan Chronicle), Kundan R Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai) and Ashish Bagga (India Today) are other members.