Sunil Jain (1963-2021) was Managing Editor of The Financial Express. He passed away on May 15 due to post Covid-19 complications. Known for his insightful and unsparing commentary on business and economy, Jain was often a lightning rod for many an intellectual and policy debate. A graduate of Delhi School of Economics, he wrote extensively on issues like regulatory capture, highlighting details of faulty decisions by the telecom as well as various electricity regulators. Jain started his journalistic career as a reporter in India Today in 1991, and then moved on to heading all business and economy coverage for The Indian Express. After working for six years in the Express, he worked with Business Standard for eight years, and then joined The Financial Express. Jain wrote two books based on the results of NCAER’s annual household survey and was the co-author of ‘Caste in a Different Mould’ on the role of education and location and occupation in social and income mobility across caste groups.

March 13, 1999 00:00 IST
Forget all that you've heard about Mamata Bannerji professing her love for the poor consumer, and how upset she's over the recent proposa...
Sat, Mar 13, 1999
March 06, 1999 00:00 IST
With Yashwant Sinha maintaining a sphinx-like silence on the issues raised by his former advisor Mohan Guruswamy, it's clear we'll never ...
Sat, Mar 06, 1999
March 04, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 3: The Commissioner of Customs in Mumbai has levied a fine of Rs 57 crore on Jindal Vijaynagar Steel Limited for under-i...
Thu, Mar 04, 1999
February 28, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Feb 27: The middle class, across the country, will have to pay for Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha's inability to tame runaway...
Sun, Feb 28, 1999
February 27, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEB 26: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has cast its lot firmly with domestic tobacco giant ITC, against multinatio...
Sat, Feb 27, 1999
February 27, 1999 00:00 IST
What would you say to a technology which helped you by more than double your output and cut costs of vital inputs to a fifth? You'd run t...
Sat, Feb 27, 1999
February 24, 1999 00:00 IST
Quit or sacked? Corrupt or the fall guy for other people's deals? The exit of Mohan Guruswamy from his job as advisor to Finance Minister...
Wed, Feb 24, 1999
February 23, 1999 00:00 IST
Quit or sacked? Corrupt or the fall guy for other people's deals? The exit of Mohan Guruswamy from his job as advisor to Finance Minister...
Tue, Feb 23, 1999
February 20, 1999 00:00 IST
Like many others, both within and without the government, I have been critical of the unduly activist role played by the finance minister...
Sat, Feb 20, 1999
February 18, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEB 17: While sanctioning a Rs 850 crore new financial package for Essar Oil Limited (EOL), the financial institutions have im...
Thu, Feb 18, 1999
February 14, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEB 13: While the controversy over the Finance Ministry's bailout plan for Essar Steel is barely over, the ministry finds itse...
Sun, Feb 14, 1999
February 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEB 12: After vociferous opposition forced it to defer a decision on the proposal to allow Rothmans to set up a wholly-owned s...
Sat, Feb 13, 1999
February 13, 1999 00:00 IST
Whatever else the motives behind the Lok Dal's Om Prakash Chautala's threat to withdraw support to the government on the subsidy cut issu...
Sat, Feb 13, 1999
January 23, 1999 00:00 IST
With the government increasingly convinced that it is being done in by the English language (and western?) press on most issues, it's per...
Sat, Jan 23, 1999
January 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 19: Ever wondered how an airline which showed a miraculous turnaround last year can suddenly dip into the red again? Why h...
Wed, Jan 20, 1999
January 16, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 15: Several months after the financial institutions (FIs) first opposed moves to work on bailout packages for the beleague...
Sat, Jan 16, 1999
January 16, 1999 00:00 IST
A couple of years ago, a well-connected industrialist was facing serious problems when some government-owned undertakings refused to gran...
Sat, Jan 16, 1999
January 09, 1999 00:00 IST
Most of us who aren't exactly shrewd investors, are happy to see our provident fund contributions mount, confident that when we retire we...
Sat, Jan 09, 1999
January 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 6: With local non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) getting hurt by aggressive lending practices of the US-based GE Capital...
Thu, Jan 07, 1999
January 02, 1999 00:00 IST
New year's a time for new beginnings, for new christenings as it were. So, given the way the BJP government has evolved over the year, it...
Sat, Jan 02, 1999
December 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 29: The Cabinet today decided to scrap the Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act (ULCRA) of 1976 through an ordinance. Onc...
Wed, Dec 30, 1998
December 26, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 25: The Swadeshi Jagran Manch's Swadeshi Mela, being organised in January, to extol the virtues of domestic industry over ...
Sat, Dec 26, 1998
December 26, 1998 00:00 IST
Though the jury's still out on whether Civil Aviation minister Ananth Kumar sacked the combined boards of Air India and Indian Airlines f...
Sat, Dec 26, 1998
December 25, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 24: The joint sector Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) is likely to be asked to repay slightly over R...
Fri, Dec 25, 1998
December 20, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Dec 19: Lobbying for jobs reached new heights last Saturday with Petroleum Minister Vazhappady Ramamurthy and his deputy Santo...
Sun, Dec 20, 1998




