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.

October 04, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 3: While the Government continues to dither over whether or not to close down loss-making public sector units (PSUs), a st...
Sun, Oct 04, 1998
October 03, 1998 00:00 IST
What would you say to an argument that it wasn't desirable to let Johnny Walker manufacture its famous brand of scotch in India because t...
Sat, Oct 03, 1998
September 29, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 28: While it has by now become routine for the Power Minister to go and woo global investors at the annual World Energy D...
Tue, Sep 29, 1998
September 27, 1998 00:00 IST
No, he doesn't have any figures to prove his critics wrong, but Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha remains convinced that the beleaguered ec...
Sun, Sep 27, 1998
September 26, 1998 00:00 IST
You have to admire the tenacity of the babus who have been assigned the task of charting out India's future course in the field of inform...
Sat, Sep 26, 1998
September 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 19: Disinvestment Commission chief G V Ramakrishna has submitted a new proposal on disinvestment of PSU shares to Finance...
Sun, Sep 20, 1998
September 19, 1998 00:00 IST
One doesn't know how Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee feels about the way he's handled the Ram Jethmalani-Kiran Aggarwal episode, but ...
Sat, Sep 19, 1998
September 12, 1998 00:00 IST
Anyone who thought Disinvestment Commission chief G.V. Ramakrishna's vocal opposition to Finance Secretary Vijay Kelkar's disinvestment p...
Sat, Sep 12, 1998
September 11, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Sept 10: The threat of possible protests by his political opponents has forced Petroleum Minister Vazhapadi Ramamurthy to put ...
Fri, Sep 11, 1998
September 06, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 5: The proposal made by Finance Secretary Vijay Kelkar to speed up the privatisation process, may actually end up allowin...
Sun, Sep 06, 1998
September 02, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Sept 1: Investigating authorities today made simultaneous raids in three cities to put an end to what they believe is one of t...
Wed, Sep 02, 1998
September 02, 1998 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, September 1: Hectic consultations are taking place between banks, financial institutions (FIs) and the RBI to come up with a bail...
Wed, Sep 02, 1998
August 29, 1998 00:00 IST
Judging by the initial press reports as well as the analyses by pundits, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee appeared to have scored heav...
Sat, Aug 29, 1998
August 29, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, August 28: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has pulled up Minister for Law, Justice and Company Affairs M Thambidurai for sit...
Sat, Aug 29, 1998
August 28, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 27: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee took a break from his usual official duties to request Congress MP T Subbarami ...
Fri, Aug 28, 1998
August 23, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 22: While the Information Technology (IT) task force has come out with a beautiful plan to increase the country's IT liter...
Sun, Aug 23, 1998
August 22, 1998 00:00 IST
While few would question either the integrity or the ability of former Enforcement Directorate (ED) chief M.K. Bezbaruah, the media campa...
Sat, Aug 22, 1998
August 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 19: The Ministry of Petroleum has rejected ONGC chief B C Bora's glowing performance reviews for Director (Operations) ...
Thu, Aug 20, 1998
August 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 18: Senior industrialists have sought the intervention of both the Prime Minister as well as the Finance Minister to help ...
Wed, Aug 19, 1998
August 15, 1998 00:00 IST
While the BJP has generated a lot of controversy by its plan to commission extensive rewriting of our history to remove what it calls `le...
Sat, Aug 15, 1998
August 08, 1998 00:00 IST
Talk to any ITC apologist, and there are several especially in the media these days, and they'll tell you that last month's US court verd...
Sat, Aug 08, 1998
July 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 30: With the Gujarat cyclone triggering a shortage of LPG supplies in the country, the Government has decided to drastica...
Fri, Jul 31, 1998
July 25, 1998 00:00 IST
If the Reliance-Enron consortium found less oil/gas than it had envisaged when bidding for the Mukta-Panna/Tapti fields a few years ago, ...
Sat, Jul 25, 1998
July 18, 1998 00:00 IST
It's not too difficult to feel sorry for power minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam these days. For one, he's obviously still smarting from...
Sat, Jul 18, 1998
July 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 14: With the Communications Ministry periodically expressing its inability to take any action on the cellular telephone indu...
Wed, Jul 15, 1998
