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.

December 19, 1998 00:00 IST
How else can one describe what is happening in Parliament, with the Congressdeciding to play the irresponsible opposition, dribbling like...
Sat, Dec 19, 1998
December 18, 1998 00:00 IST
While senior Congress leaders are justifying their decision to refer the BJP's insurance Bill to a Parliamentary Standing Committee by sa...
Fri, Dec 18, 1998
December 12, 1998 00:00 IST
Internet telephony, bandwidth, converging networks, CDMA, UMPCS. Much of this is Greek to most of us who use telephones either for just c...
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
December 05, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: With the government more or less laying the blame for its sluggish response to the runaway increase in vegetable prices...
Sat, Dec 05, 1998
December 05, 1998 00:00 IST
There's this insurance policy which the nationalised Indian insurance companies don't really advertise too much, but which top executives...
Sat, Dec 05, 1998
December 04, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 3: A battle is going on between the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and its principal consultants Engineers India...
Fri, Dec 04, 1998
December 03, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: While the government has still not finalised the insurance bill, it is likely that it will prune the amount of foreign ...
Thu, Dec 03, 1998
December 02, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 1: A faux pas by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Madan Lal Khurana, compounded by his colleague Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, ...
Wed, Dec 02, 1998
November 28, 1998 00:00 IST
When scores of foreign investors fly into the country tomorrow for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), chances are that they won't be too...
Sat, Nov 28, 1998
November 27, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 26: There's good news for pilots who traditionally wince at the thought of flying into airports like Delhi and Mumbai, with t...
Fri, Nov 27, 1998
November 23, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 22: The long-delayed process of selecting around 5,000 dealers for various petroleum products across the country took off to ...
Mon, Nov 23, 1998
November 21, 1998 00:00 IST
While housing minister Ram Jethmalani's scheme to open up his ministry's files for public scrutiny has died a natural death following the op...
Sat, Nov 21, 1998
November 14, 1998 00:00 IST
With the Prime Minister asking the finance ministry to track, and punish, the unscrupulous promoters who made innocent investors lose thousa...
Sat, Nov 14, 1998
November 11, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 10: With the clock ticking fast on the Prime Minister's 90-day deadline for tracking and taking punitive action against unscr...
Wed, Nov 11, 1998
November 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 7: While industry is overjoyed with the news of the US decision to lift some economic sanctions, an angry government has made...
Sun, Nov 08, 1998
November 07, 1998 00:00 IST
While most of us have vented our spleen at the middleman for hoarding and raising retail prices of onions to between Rs 40 and 50 a kilogram...
Sat, Nov 07, 1998
October 31, 1998 00:00 IST
You've got to hand it to the country's beleagured telecom companies. They just don't give up. When they found that they had vastly over-e...
Sat, Oct 31, 1998
October 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 29: The Cabinet will meet tomorrow to consider the Ministry of Power's proposal to abolish import duty on equipment for at...
Fri, Oct 30, 1998
October 24, 1998 00:00 IST
With social activist Medha Patkar's immensely successful agitation completing its first anniversary of stopping all work at the 400 MW Ma...
Sat, Oct 24, 1998
October 21, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 20: Even as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is stuck with around 2.5 million tonnes of unsold damaged rice which it pr...
Wed, Oct 21, 1998
October 17, 1998 00:00 IST
Believe it or not, one wing of the government has actually asked a leading Indian corporate whether its management also controls the Unio...
Sat, Oct 17, 1998
October 17, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 16: With the process of disinvestment not really taking off, the Prime Minister has decided that he will personally head t...
Sat, Oct 17, 1998
October 15, 1998 00:00 IST
Economics, with Amartya Sen receiving the world's most prestigious recognition for excellence, can never again be accused of being the di...
Thu, Oct 15, 1998
October 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 13: The Delhi Customs authorities have busted a telephone call-back racket which involves a revenue loss of around Rs 100 ...
Wed, Oct 14, 1998
October 12, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Oct 11: With expenditure continuing to rise and tax collections doing very poorly, the Finance Ministry has written to all oth...
Mon, Oct 12, 1998




