G Viswanath retained as SJFI President

Veteran journalist G Viswanath of The Hindu (Mumbai) was retained as the president of the Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI) at its AGM held at the Uppal Stadium in Hyderabad.
Subodh Malla Barua of Dainik Asom (Guwahati) will remain the secretary for 2014-16 period.
The following are the office-bearers and Executive Committee:
President: G. Viswanath (Hindu Mumbai); Vice-Presidents: A Vinod (Hindu Kerala), DV Garud (Bangalore), Saraju Chakraborty (Tripura) and Vikas Pande (Indore); Secretary: Subodh Malla Barua (Dainik Asom, Assam); Joint Secretary: Prashant Keni (Loksatta, Mumbai); Treasurer: R Kaushik (Wisden, India, Bangalore); Ex Comm: SS Ramaswamy (PTI, Mumbai), Biswajit Sharma (Tripura), R. Narayanan (TN), KC Vijayakumar (The Hindu, Bangalore), Ratan Chakraborty (Ananda bazar Patrika, Calcutta), Sambir Mohapatra (Odisha), Amitabha Das Sharma (The Hindu Calcutta).

The 1st executive committee meeting co-opted the following: Suhas Nayse and Kishore Bagde (Nagpur).