TOI apologizes to Tendulkar for article on resignation of IIT director

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The News Minute | December 28, 2014 | 2:50 pm IST Times of India has published a clarification in its article and apologized to the concerned parties, after it reported on Sunday, that their that the IIT Delhi director Ragunath K Shevgaonkar had quit his post after reportedly coming under tremendous pressure from the human resource development ministry for two demands. One of the demands was to provide the IIT ground for a cricket academy that Sachin Tendulkar wanted to open. However, the cricketing legend claimed that the facts in the report about him were fictional and took to his Facebook page to say how appalled he was to read stories about the incident. Read - Did IIT Delhi director quit under pressure? Tendulkar claims that story is fiction Post by Sachin Tendulkar. The Times of India, after seeing this, immediately made the necessary changes and published the following clarification. "IIT sources had told TOI that there was pressure on the director to give land for SachinTendulkar's cricket academy. However, Tendulkar has strongly denied that this is the case. In fact, he has said he has no plans for a cricket academy. We are sorry to have carried the news on the basis of sources which have been reliable in the past and didn't check with Tendulkar. We are sorry for this. We are also removing all mentions of this from the story." Tweet

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