{"id":1007048,"date":"2026-05-07T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007048"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:33:00","slug":"vodafone-idea-shares-jump-over-3-after-km-birla-returns-as-non-executive-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/vodafone-idea-shares-jump-over-3-after-km-birla-returns-as-non-executive-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea shares jump over 3% after KM Birla returns as non-executive chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shares of Vodafone Idea gained as much as 3.2% to their day&#8217;s high of \u20b911.15 on the BSE on Wednesday after the company named billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla as its non-executive chairman, around five years after he resigned from the same role in the telecom giant amid financial stress. <\/p>\n<p>In an exchange filing released on Tuesday, Vodafone Idea announced that its board of directors accepted the request of veteran Ravinder Takkar to step down as the non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately. He will continue to remain a non-executive director at the company, and was appointed as the non-executive vice chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shares of Vodafone Idea gained as much as 3.2% to their day&#8217;s high of \u20b911.15 on the BSE on Wednesday after the company named billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla as its non-executive chairman, around five years after he resigned from the same role in the telecom giant amid financial stress. In an exchange filing released on Tuesday, Vodafone Idea announced that its board of directors accepted the request of veteran Ravinder Takkar to step down as the non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately. He will continue to remain a non-executive director at the company, and was appointed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}