{"id":1039603,"date":"2026-09-30T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039603"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:14:54","slug":"coforge-shares-rise-2-after-firm-appoints-akhil-kumar-gupta-as-chairman-post-op-bhatts-abrupt-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/coforge-shares-rise-2-after-firm-appoints-akhil-kumar-gupta-as-chairman-post-op-bhatts-abrupt-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Coforge shares rise 2% after firm appoints Akhil Kumar Gupta as chairman post OP Bhatt\u2019s abrupt resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of IT services company Coforge rallied 2% to Rs 1,800 on the BSE on Tuesday after appointing former Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Akhil Kumar Gupta as its chairperson and non-executive independent director for a five-year term, effective Tuesday. The appointment comes as the company looks to move past a period of boardroom turmoil. <\/p>\n<p>Gupta&#8217;s appointment follows former chairman and veteran banker O P Bhatt&#8217;s abrupt resignation on September 9. An internal audit had found that Bhatt withheld a board evaluation report that gave his own performance the lowest rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of IT services company Coforge rallied 2% to Rs 1,800 on the BSE on Tuesday after appointing former Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Akhil Kumar Gupta as its chairperson and non-executive independent director for a five-year term, effective Tuesday. The appointment comes as the company looks to move past a period of boardroom turmoil. Gupta&#8217;s appointment follows former chairman and veteran banker O P Bhatt&#8217;s abrupt resignation on September 9. An internal audit had found that Bhatt withheld a board evaluation report that gave his own performance the lowest rating.<\/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-1039603","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\/1039603","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=1039603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039630,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039603\/revisions\/1039630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}