Veteran journalist Arvind Padmanabhan, Executive Editor at IANS, died of cardiac arrest.
Arvind Padmanabhan was born in 1967 at Tirunelveli, Tamul Nadu.
Padmanabhan had a long inning at IANS, joining the India Abroad newspaper that was then part of the wire service in 1999 as in-charge of its Business Section.
He was soon elevated as the Executive Editor and headed the business and economy team.
He was earlier with the PTI, The Times of India and TV18.
He was the son of G. Padmanabhan, who worked for many years with the Press Institute of India and the Indian & Eastern Newspapers Society (IENS, now INS).
IANS: Know More- The IANS was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju.
- It was founded as the India Abroad News Service.
- It was later renamed the Indo-Asian News Service.
- The IANS has main offices located in Noida.
- IANS reports about India with news, views and analyses about the country across a wide range of subjects.
- News, features and views from the subcontinent reach subscribers via the Internet.
