{"id":1008012,"date":"2026-05-15T10:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008012"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:50:21","slug":"bharti-airtel-reappoints-sunil-mittal-as-chairman-for-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/15\/bharti-airtel-reappoints-sunil-mittal-as-chairman-for-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel reappoints Sunil Mittal as chairman for 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Wednesday reappointed its founder, Sunil Bharti Mittal, as the chairman of the board for five years until September 30, 2031, according to a regulatory filing by the telco.<\/p>\n<p>Mittal&#8217;s current term as the Chairman was due to expire on September 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish to inform you that on the recommendation of HR &amp; Nomination Committee, the Board of Directors of the company&#8230;has approved&#8230;reappointment of Sunil Bharti Mittal as the Chairman of the company for a further term of five consecutive years w.e.f. October 01, 2026,&#8221; the Gurugram-headquartered telecom carrier said in the filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Wednesday reappointed its founder, Sunil Bharti Mittal, as the chairman of the board for five years until September 30, 2031, according to a regulatory filing by the telco. Mittal&#8217;s current term as the Chairman was due to expire on September 30. &#8220;We wish to inform you that on the recommendation of HR &amp; Nomination Committee, the Board of Directors of the company&#8230;has approved&#8230;reappointment of Sunil Bharti Mittal as the Chairman of the company for a further term of five consecutive years w.e.f. October 01, 2026,&#8221; the Gurugram-headquartered telecom carrier said in the filing.<\/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-1008012","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\/1008012","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=1008012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008024,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008012\/revisions\/1008024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}