{"id":1007952,"date":"2026-05-14T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007952"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:53:55","slug":"bharti-airtel-board-approves-re-appointment-of-sunil-bharti-mittal-as-chairman-for-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/14\/bharti-airtel-board-approves-re-appointment-of-sunil-bharti-mittal-as-chairman-for-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel board approves re-appointment of Sunil Bharti Mittal as chairman for 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Wednesday, 13 May, announced the re-appointment of Sunil Bharti Mittal as the telecom company&#8217;s chairman for a period of five years with effect from 1 October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes as Sunil Bharti Mittal&#8217;s current term as Chairman is set to expire on 30 September 2026. Accordingly, the board has reappointed the executive for the same position from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel on Wednesday, 13 May, announced the re-appointment of Sunil Bharti Mittal as the telecom company&#8217;s chairman for a period of five years with effect from 1 October 2026. This development comes as Sunil Bharti Mittal&#8217;s current term as Chairman is set to expire on 30 September 2026. Accordingly, the board has reappointed the executive for the same position from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007952","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007953,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007952\/revisions\/1007953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}