{"id":999524,"date":"2026-03-27T07:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999524"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:58:29","slug":"google-top-india-counsel-quits-in-latest-departure-amid-regulatory-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/google-top-india-counsel-quits-in-latest-departure-amid-regulatory-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Google top India counsel quits in latest departure amid regulatory hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Google&#8217;s top India counsel, Bijoya Roy, has resigned after 16 months in the role, two sources said, a high-profile exit in a key market where the U.S. tech giant is facing \u200cregulatory hurdles \u2060and \u2060also lacks a government relations head.<\/p>\n<p>India is crucial for Alphabet&#8217;s Google since most smartphones in the country run on its Android operating system, even as Apple&#8217;s share is growing steadily.<\/p>\n<p>Google also faces antitrust cases in India, legal challenges over AI \u2060training and \u200cstricter-than-ever content takedown regulations that started applying to tech companies from February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Google&#8217;s top India counsel, Bijoya Roy, has resigned after 16 months in the role, two sources said, a high-profile exit in a key market where the U.S. tech giant is facing \u200cregulatory hurdles \u2060and \u2060also lacks a government relations head. India is crucial for Alphabet&#8217;s Google since most smartphones in the country run on its Android operating system, even as Apple&#8217;s share is growing steadily. Google also faces antitrust cases in India, legal challenges over AI \u2060training and \u200cstricter-than-ever content takedown regulations that started applying to tech companies from February.<\/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-999524","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\/999524","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=999524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}