NEW Chairman for PTI

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M P Veerendrakumar, Chairman and Managing Director of the Mathrubhumi
newspaper group, was today unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Press Trust India (PTI), succeeding Vineet Kumar Jain,
Managing Director of the Times of India group. Philip Mathew, Managing
Editor of the Malayala Manorama group, was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman
at a meeting of the Board following the 55th Annual General Meeting of the
agency's shareholders here.

Jain, N. Ravi (The Hindu), Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express), and two Public
Service Directors, Justice H R Khanna, former Judge of the Supreme Court,
and Prof. E V Chitnis, eminent physicist, were re-elected to the Board. Mrs.
Shobhana Bhartia (Hindustan Times), C R Irani (Statesman), Aveek Kumar
Sarkar (Anand Bazaar Patrika), Pravinchandra V Gandhi (Janmabhoomi Group),
Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar) and R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar) are the
other members of the Board.

Veerendrakumar, a former MP, has served as Union Minister of State of
Finance and Labour, and is also the current Vice- President of the Indian
Newspaper Society (INS). He is the author of 11 books in Malayalam and has
served as Chairman of PTI in 1992-93. 

Source:
PTI