NEW DELHI:Ashish Bagga of India Today has been elected President of The Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2011-12 at its 72nd Annual General Meeting held in Bangalore today. He succeeds Kundan R Vyas of Janmabhoomi Group.

KN Tilak Kumar (Prajavani) is the Deputy President, Mr. Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman) is the Vice President and Rakesh Sharma (Aaj Samaj) is the Honorary Treasurer of the Society for the year 2011-12.

V. Shankaran is the Secretary General of the Society.

The other members of the Executive Committee of the INS are: -
1. Dr. B. S. Adityan (Vaarantari Rani)
2. Mr. L. Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic)
3. Mr. Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal)
4. Mr. Samahit Bal (Pragativadi)
5. Mr. K. Balaji (The Hindu Weekly)
6. Mr. P.V. Chandran (Grihalakshmi)
7. Mr. V. K. Chopra (Dainik Asam)
8. Mr. Devendra Darda (Lokmat Times)
9. Mr. Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily)
10. Mr. Ravindra Dhariwal (Navbharat Times)
11. Mr. Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran)
12. Mr. Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest)
13. Mr. Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi)
14. Mr. Shailesh Gupta (Mid-Day)
15. Mr. Shekhar Gupta (Loksatta, Mumbai)
16. Mr. Sanjay Hazari (The Tribune)
17. Mr. Mohit Jain (Economic Times)
18. Dr. R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar)
19. Mr. Rajul Maheshwari (Amar Ujala)
20. Mr. Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama)
21. Mr. Vilas A. Marathe (Dainik Hindusthan, Amravati)
22. Mr. Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman)
23. Mr. Abhijit Pratap Pawar (Gomantak, Goa)
24. Mr. Maheshwer Peri (Outlook)
25. Mr. R.M. R. Ramesh (Dinakaran)
26. Mr. K. Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi, Vishakhapatnam)
27. Mr. Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik)
28. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (The New Indian Express)
29. Ms. Akila Urankar (Business Standard)
30. Mr. Kiran B. Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro)
31. Mr. M. Venkatesh (Hindustan Times)
32. Mr. Vijay Darda (Lokmat)
33. Mr. Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjabi Kesari, Jalandhar)
34. Mr. Pratap G. Pawar (Sakal)
35. Mr. Abhay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia)
36. Mr. M. P. Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi)
37. Mr. Jacob Mathew (Vanitha)
38. Mr. Bahubali S. Shah (Gujarat Samachar)
39. Mr. Hormusji N Cama ( Bombay Samachar Weekly)
40. Mr. T. Venkttaram Reddy (Deccan Chronicle)
41. Mr. Kundan R. Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai)