Mr Bahubali S Shah, Managing Director and Editor, Gujarat Samachar from Ahmedabad was elected president of The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2007-08  at its 68th annual general meeting held in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Mr Shah, who has been associated with the INS for the last 15 years, succeeds Mr Hormusji  N Cama of Bombay  Samachar Weekly, Mumbai.

Mr Paresh Nath of Woman’s Era, New Delhi, was elected the Deputy President and Mr T Venkattram Reddy of Deccan Chronicle, the Vice President. Mr Rakesh Sharma of Hindustan Times, Patna, was elected the Honorary Treasurer and Mr Pawan Chopra, the Secretary General of the Society.

The other members of the executive committee elected at the AGM are:
Mr Viveck Goenka (Indian Express, Mumbai); Mr Vijay Darda, (Lokmat); Mr Mammen Mathew  (Malayala Manorama); Mr Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjabi Kesari, Jalandhar); Mr Pratap G Pawar (Sakal); Mr Abhay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia); Mr M P Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi); Mr Pradeep Guha (Divya Bhaskar); Mr Jacob Mathew (Vanitha); Mr Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar Weekly); Dr BS Adityan  (Vaarantari Rani ); Mr Girish  Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal); Mr MJ Akbar (Asian Age, Delhi); Mr Tariq Ansari (Mid-day); Mr Ashish Bagga (India Today); Mr Vemuri Balaram (Swati Saparivara Patrika Weekly); Mr VK Chopra  (Dainik Asam, Guwahati); Mr PV Chandran (Grihalakshmi, Kozhikode); Mr Devendra Darda (Lokmat Times, Nagpur); Mr Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily, Patiala); Mr Bhaskar Das (Maharashtra Times, Mumbai); Mr Ravindra Dhariwal (Navbharat Times); Mr Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran); Mr Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest); Mr Shailesh Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi); Mr Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express, New Delhi); Mr Sanjay Hazari (The Tribune); Mr Mohit Jain (Economic Times); Mr K N Tilak Kumar (Prajavani); Mr Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman); Dr R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar); Mr Atul Maaheshwari (Amar Ujala); Mr Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman); Mr Vilas Arun Marathe (Dainik Hindusthan, Amravadi); Mr Abhijit Pratap Pawar (Gomantak, Goa); Mr Maheshwer Peri (Outlook, New Delhi); Mr RMR Ramesh (Dinakaran, Chennai); Mr Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (Kannada Prabha); Mr Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik, Jaipur); Mr Kundan R Vyas (Janmabhoomi) and Mr M Venkatesh (Hindustan Times, New Delhi).