{"id":1029519,"date":"2026-08-18T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029519"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:06:26","slug":"sunil-bharti-mittal-to-step-down-as-airtel-payments-bank-chairman-shabnam-sinha-to-succeed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/18\/sunil-bharti-mittal-to-step-down-as-airtel-payments-bank-chairman-shabnam-sinha-to-succeed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Bharti Mittal to step down as Airtel Payments Bank Chairman, Shabnam Sinha to succeed him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): Shabnam Sinha will take over as Chairperson of Airtel Payments Bank for a three-year term from October 1, 2026, succeeding Sunil Bharti Mittal, the bank said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Mittal will conclude his tenure as Non-Executive Chairman and step down from the Board with effect from September 30, 2026. Sinha&#8217;s appointment has been approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) following her appointment by the Board, according to a statement issued by Airtel Payments Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): Shabnam Sinha will take over as Chairperson of Airtel Payments Bank for a three-year term from October 1, 2026, succeeding Sunil Bharti Mittal, the bank said on Monday. Mittal will conclude his tenure as Non-Executive Chairman and step down from the Board with effect from September 30, 2026. Sinha&#8217;s appointment has been approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) following her appointment by the Board, according to a statement issued by Airtel Payments Bank.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029519","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=1029519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029536,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029519\/revisions\/1029536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}