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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}'''Ravindra Kumar''' (born 1960) is editor and managing director of ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'', one of India's best-known and oldest newspapers. He writes on Indian politics and on South-Asian and South-east Asian affairs. <br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Born in [[New Delhi]], India on 24 July 1960, he was a director of [[United News of India]], a leading Indian news agency, from 1992 to 2008, and twice its chairman. He was the chairman of Media Research Users' Council for 2012-13 and president of the Indian Newspaper Society in its platinum jubilee year, 2013-14. During this period he wrote a book, "Threescore and Fifteen - The story of the Indian Newspaper Society". The first copy of the book was presented to the President of India, [[Pranab Mukherjee]], at a function to mark the platinum jubilee. A founding member of the executive board of Asia News Network, a grouping of 22 Asian newspapers, he was twice its chairman.<ref><br />
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/editor-arrested-for-outraging-muslims-1607256.html The editor and publisher of a major Indian newspaper..] [[The Independent]]</ref><br />
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== Positions ==<br />
* Member, Executive Committee (and past president), Indian Newspaper Society<br />
* Founding member (and past Chairman), [[Asia News Network]]<br />
* Member, Board of Governors (and past chairman), Media Research Users' Council<br />
* Member, Council of Management, All India Management Association<br />
* Member, Executive Board, Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism<br />
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== Awards ==<br />
* Durga-Ratan Award for Investigative Journalism, 1986<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Ian Stephens (editor)]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|http://www.thestatesman.net/|The Statesman, official website}}<br />
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