{"id":59408,"date":"2020-02-24T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=59408"},"modified":"2020-02-24T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:42:39","slug":"no-ratan-tata-has-not-announcement-that-jnu-students-will-not-be-recruited-by-tata-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-ratan-tata-has-not-announcement-that-jnu-students-will-not-be-recruited-by-tata-group\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Ratan Tata has not announced that JNU students will not be recruited by Tata Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An image of Ratan Tata has gone viral on social media particularly on WhatsApp. The text on the image reads, &#8220;Big announcement by Rata Tata Sahab: From now on Tata Group of companies not to recruit any of the JNU #Students.&#8221; The message adds,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Those who can&#8217;t be faithful to the country how can we expect them to be faithful to the company.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59409 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/ERYE3oGXYAIT_Ig.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/ERYE3oGXYAIT_Ig.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/ERYE3oGXYAIT_Ig-300x233.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/ERYE3oGXYAIT_Ig-768x596.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/india\/court-asks-delhi-govt-to-submit-status-report-on-jnu-sedition-case-by-april-4\/cid\/1746649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Delhi court asked for a status report<\/a> on the pending sanction to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru Students&#8217; Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 sedition case.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News received several requests to fact-check the images on WhatsApp (+91 76000 11160) and on our <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official mobile application<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59410 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/2020-02-22-17_27_23-React-App.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1295\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/2020-02-22-17_27_23-React-App.jpg 1295w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/2020-02-22-17_27_23-React-App-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/2020-02-22-17_27_23-React-App-1024x506.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/2020-02-22-17_27_23-React-App-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/2020-02-22-17_27_23-React-App-990x489.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1295px) 100vw, 1295px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>FACT-CHECK<\/h4>\n<p>Alt News performed a keyword search on Google and found that a <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/ratan-tata-has-not-made-any-comments-on-jnu-tata-group\/articleshow\/51001074.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>PTI<\/em> report<\/a> debunking the viral message in 2016 was republished by several news organisations including\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/industry\/ratan-tata-has-not-made-any-comments-on-jnu-tata-group\/211837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Express<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/ratan-tata-has-not-made-any-comments-on-jnu-tata-group-116021501256_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Standard<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Tata Group clarified that no such statement was made by Ratan Tata. Alt News did a keyword search and found a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TataCompanies\/status\/699215324902608896?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quote-tweet<\/a> by Tata Group from February 15, 2016, where the company reiterated the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mr Tata has not issued any such statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tIVi6Vgukh\">https:\/\/t.co\/tIVi6Vgukh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tata Group (@TataCompanies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TataCompanies\/status\/699215324902608896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, had the company made such an announcement, it would have been reported in the media. The lack of reports and no mention of any such decision on the company website also hint that the viral message is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image of Ratan Tata has gone viral on social media particularly on WhatsApp. The text on the image reads, &#8220;Big announcement by Rata Tata Sahab: From now on Tata Group of companies not to recruit any of the JNU #Students.&#8221; The message adds,\u00a0&#8220;Those who can&#8217;t be faithful to the country how can we expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":59421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-59408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/FI-Alt1-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59512,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59408\/revisions\/59512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59408"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=59408"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}