{"id":1042684,"date":"2026-10-13T07:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042684"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:24:58","slug":"sunil-bharti-mittal-awarded-frances-legion-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/sunil-bharti-mittal-awarded-frances-legion-of-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Bharti Mittal awarded France&#8217;s Legion of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, has been named a Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre national de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur (Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour) by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. <\/p>\n<p>Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur is the highest civilian award bestowed by the French Republic. Mittal received the distinction for his longstanding commitment to deepening economic ties between India and France, and his achievements in telecommunications and digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, has been named a Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre national de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur (Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour) by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur is the highest civilian award bestowed by the French Republic. Mittal received the distinction for his longstanding commitment to deepening economic ties between India and France, and his achievements in telecommunications and digital infrastructure.<\/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-1042684","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\/1042684","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=1042684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042697,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042684\/revisions\/1042697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}