{"id":1036697,"date":"2026-09-18T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036697"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:38:02","slug":"tata-sons-trusts-split-on-chandra-board-offers-5-year-extension-noel-led-arm-calls-it-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/tata-sons-trusts-split-on-chandra-board-offers-5-year-extension-noel-led-arm-calls-it-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Sons, Trusts split on Chandra; board offers 5-year extension, Noel-led arm calls it &#8216;illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Sons\u2019 board has offered a five-year extension to chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran despite opposition from Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, which described the reappointment resolution as \u201cillegal\u201d, underscoring a divide between the board of the group\u2019s principal holding company and its promoter trust. <\/p>\n<p>The resolution to hand Chandra \u2014 as the Tata Sons chairman is popularly known \u2014 a third term received the backing of four of the six board members. Noel Tata, who represented the trusts, voted against. Chandra did not vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Sons\u2019 board has offered a five-year extension to chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran despite opposition from Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts, which described the reappointment resolution as \u201cillegal\u201d, underscoring a divide between the board of the group\u2019s principal holding company and its promoter trust. The resolution to hand Chandra \u2014 as the Tata Sons chairman is popularly known \u2014 a third term received the backing of four of the six board members. Noel Tata, who represented the trusts, voted against. Chandra did not vote.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036697","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=1036697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036708,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036697\/revisions\/1036708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}