BANGALORE: The 67th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on Monday elected Hormusji N. Cama of the Bombay Samachar Weekly as its president for the year 2006-2007.
He succeeds Jacob Mathew of Malayala Manorama.
Bahubali S. Shah of Gujarat Samachar was elected deputy president, while Paresh Nath of Women's Era the vice-president, Sunil Dang of Day After honorary treasurer and Deepak S. Raja the secretary-general.
The members elected to the executive committee are; Dr. B.S. Adityan (Vaarantari Rani), Vivek Goenka (Indian Express, Mumbai), Vijay Darda (Lokmat), Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjab Kesari, Jalandhar), Pratap G. Pawar (Sakal), Abhay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia), M.P. Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi), Pradeep Guha (Divya Bhaskar), Jacob Mathew (Vanitha), Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal), M.J. Akbar (Asian Age, Delhi), Tariq Ansari (Mid-day), Ashish Bagga (India Today), Samahit Bal (Pragativadi), Priyavrat Bhartia (Hindustan Times, New Delhi), Devendra Darda (Lokmat Times, Nagpur), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express, New Delhi), Sanjay Hazari (The Tribune), Mohit Jain (Economic Times), Vineet Jain (Maharashtra Times), Sarvinder Kaur (Ajit Daily), Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman), Dr. R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Atul Maaheshwari (Amar Ujala), T. Venkataram Reddy (Deccan Chronicle), Rajendra Sharma (Swadesh, Bhopal), Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (Dinamani), Kiran B. Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro), Rajiv Verma (Hindustan Times, Patna), Kundan Vyas (Janmabhoomi), Vemuri Balaram (Swathi Saparivara Patrika Weekly, Vijayawada), V.K. Chopra (Dainik Asam, Guwahati), Farzana Behram Contractor (Afternoon Despatch and Courier, Mumbai), Bhaskar Das (Navbharat Times, Mumbai), Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest, Gurgaon), Shailesh Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi), Naresh Mohan (The Sunday Statesman, Kolkata), R.M. Ramesh (Dinakaran, Chennai) and Govindlal Vora (Amrit Sandesh, Raipur).
