Saturday, September 14, 2013

Tilak Kumar elected as INS president

K.N. Tilak Kumar, Joint Managing Director of The Printers (Mysore) Ltd. and Editor of Deccan Herald, was elected president of The Indian Newspaper Society for 2012-13, at its 73rd annual meeting held on 12th September. He succeeds Ashish Bagga of India Today. The other newly elected office-bearers are Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman), deputy president; Kiran B. Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro), vice-president; and Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi), honorary treasurer.

The 45 members of the executive committee include K. Balaji, Director, The Hindu; Akila Urankar of Business Standard; M. Venkatesh of Hindustan Times; Manoj Kumar Sonthalia of The New Indian Express; Maheshwer Peri of Outlook; Jayant Mammen Mathew of Malayala Manorama; R. Lakshmipathi of Dinamalar; and Shailesh Gupta of Mid-Day.

The INS has on its panel of members over 1,000 dailies, bi-weeklies, weeklies, fortnightlies and monthlies, published in 18 languages from all over the country. It was set up to give the newspaper industry direction, cohesion, and foster mutual co-ordination.

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