Q. Name the recently elected Chairman and Vice Chairman of Press Trust of India, as announced on 14th September 2015?- Published on 15 Sep 15a. Hormusji N. Cama and Riyad Matthew
b. K. N Shanthu Kumar and Vineet Jain
c. Vijay Kumar Chopra and R. Lakshmipathy
d. N. Ravi and M. P. Veerendra Kumar
ANSWER: Hormusji N. Cama and Riyad Matthew
Hormusji N Cama, Director of Bombay Samachar (the oldest continually published newspaper in India from 1855)and Riyad Mathew, Director of Malayala Manorama, were unanimously elected Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively of the Press Trust of India.
Cama succeeds Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of the Jagran Prakashan while Mathew succeeds him as Vice Chairman.
Cama has served two terms as INR President and he is currently Chairman of Readership Studies Council of India apart from being the board of ABC and Council for Fair Business Practices. Mathew has worked as a AP correspondent in Washington before joining Malayala Manorama.
Apart from Cama, Gupta and Mathew, other members of the PTI board include: K.N. Shanth Kumar/Deccan Herald, Vineet Jain/TOI, Aveek Kumar Sarkar/Ananda Bazar Patrika, Viveck Goenka/Indian Express, N Ravi/The Hindu, M.P. Veerendra Kumar/ Mathrubhumi, Sanjoy Narayan/Hindustan Times, Vijay Kumar Chopra/Hind Samachar and R. Lakshmipathy/Dinamalar.
