New Delhi: Viveck Goenka, Chairman and Managing Director of The Express Group, and N. Ravi, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, were on Thursday unanimously elected Chairman and Vice- Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI), the country’s largest news agency.

Goenka, 60, succeeds Riyad Mathew, who is Senior Assistant Editor and a member of the Manorama management. Ravi, 69, succeeds Goenka as Vice- Chairman.

The other members of the PTI Board are Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), K.N. Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Vineet Jain (Times of India), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Anand Bazar Patrika), M.P. Veerendra Kumar (Mathrubhumi), R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Vijay Kumar Chopra (The Hind Samachar Ltd), Rajiv Verma (Hindustan Times), Hormusji N. Cama (Bombay Samachar), Justice R.C. Lahoti, Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Shyam Saran and J.F. Pochkhanawalla.