{"id":344097,"date":"2020-03-30T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344097"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:11:43","slug":"anil-agarwal-replaces-brother-for-1st-time-takes-board-position-on-vedanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/anil-agarwal-replaces-brother-for-1st-time-takes-board-position-on-vedanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Anil Agarwal replaces brother, for 1st time takes board position on Vedanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metals and mining magnate Anil Agarwal has for the first time taken a board position on his flagship Indian firm, Vedanta Ltd, replacing his brother Navin. <\/p>\n<p>Agarwal, 66, who turned a tiny scrap metal business into a mining conglomerate, had so far headed the board of London-headquartered Vedanta Resources. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian flagship Vedanta Ltd houses its oil and gas, aluminium, power, iron ore, steel and copper business. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said Agarwal has been appointed &#8220;as the non-executive chairman of Vedanta Ltd&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He replaces his brother Navin, who will now be the Executive Vice Chairman of the Board. <\/p>\n<p>The changes followed chief executive officer S Venkatakrishnan resignation. He was replaced by Sunil Duggal, current head of Vedanta unit Hindustan Zinc Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metals and mining magnate Anil Agarwal has for the first time taken a board position on his flagship Indian firm, Vedanta Ltd, replacing his brother Navin. Agarwal, 66, who turned a tiny scrap metal business into a mining conglomerate, had so far headed the board of London-headquartered Vedanta Resources. The Indian flagship Vedanta Ltd houses its oil and gas, aluminium, power, iron ore, steel and copper business. In a statement, the company said Agarwal has been appointed &#8220;as the non-executive chairman of Vedanta Ltd&#8221;. He replaces his brother Navin, who will now be the Executive Vice Chairman of the Board. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}