{"id":1032581,"date":"2026-09-02T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032581"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:45:28","slug":"happiest-minds-stake-sale-at-82-ashok-sootas-next-act-is-a-%e2%82%b91330-cr-healthcare-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/happiest-minds-stake-sale-at-82-ashok-sootas-next-act-is-a-%e2%82%b91330-cr-healthcare-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiest Minds stake sale: At 82, Ashok Soota\u2019s next act is a \u20b91,330 cr healthcare push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: IT industry veteran Ashok Soota is paring a significant chunk of his stake in Happiest Minds Technologies for about Rs 1,330 crore to fund his ventures in medical research and healthcare. <\/p>\n<p>The 83-year-old entrepreneur, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the Indian IT services industry, is selling a 22.1 per cent stake in Happiest Minds Technologies to ITC Infotech as a precursor to a mega-merger between the two firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: IT industry veteran Ashok Soota is paring a significant chunk of his stake in Happiest Minds Technologies for about Rs 1,330 crore to fund his ventures in medical research and healthcare. The 83-year-old entrepreneur, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the Indian IT services industry, is selling a 22.1 per cent stake in Happiest Minds Technologies to ITC Infotech as a precursor to a mega-merger between the two firms.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032581","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=1032581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032605,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032581\/revisions\/1032605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}