Suresh Nambath appointed as Editor of The Hindu

The Board of Directors of The Hindu Publishing Group on Monday unanimously appointed Suresh Nambath as Editor of The Hindu  with effect from March 1, 2019. He will succeed Mukund Padmanabhan, who has been Editor of the newspaper from March 2016.

Mr. Nambath joined The Hindu as Principal Correspondent covering Tamil Nadu politics in October 1996; served as Tamil Nadu Bureau Chief between July 2006 and February 2012; and was promoted to Senior Associate Editor and Coordinating Editor in March 2014. He has been the National Editor of The Hindu since October 2015 and deputising for the Editor in his absence.