{"id":835626,"date":"2024-07-22T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835626"},"modified":"2024-07-22T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:15:05","slug":"phonepe-ceo-apologises-for-lashing-out-at-karnataka-reservation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/22\/phonepe-ceo-apologises-for-lashing-out-at-karnataka-reservation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe CEO apologises for lashing out at Karnataka reservation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sameer Nigam, chief executive officer and founder of fintech giant PhonePe, on Sunday evening, offered an unconditional apology if his recent statement related to Karnataka&#8217;s job reservation bill had hurt anyone\u2019s sentiments. <\/p>\n<p>Nigam recently voiced strong opposition to the Karnataka government\u2019s proposed private jobs quota bill, which seeks to reserve a substantial portion of private sector jobs for locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sameer Nigam, chief executive officer and founder of fintech giant PhonePe, on Sunday evening, offered an unconditional apology if his recent statement related to Karnataka&#8217;s job reservation bill had hurt anyone\u2019s sentiments. Nigam recently voiced strong opposition to the Karnataka government\u2019s proposed private jobs quota bill, which seeks to reserve a substantial portion of private sector jobs for locals.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835626","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=835626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}