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.

May 02, 1998 00:00 IST
While Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his new team have done well to assure the country of their plans to eliminate several economic...
Sat, May 02, 1998
April 22, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 21: ONGC's expensive foray into the country's deep waters have taken yet another soaking, with the corporation being forced...
Wed, Apr 22, 1998
April 18, 1998 00:00 IST
While BJP minister Madan Lal Khurana and his friends in New Delhi's shopping district Connaught Place must surely be delighted at the govern...
Sat, Apr 18, 1998
April 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 17: The battle between arch cola rivals entered a new phase with Pepsi going to court against what, to plagiarise the lates...
Sat, Apr 18, 1998
April 11, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 10: If you're still waiting for the Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) to set up its Internet telephone services, in order...
Sat, Apr 11, 1998
April 10, 1998 00:00 IST
JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV, April 9: Ever wondered where Intel Corporation developed and designed its Pentium MMX range of chips? Or, on whose softw...
Fri, Apr 10, 1998
April 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 8: ONGC has won two global tenders for gas-drilling floated by the Bangladesh government for $ 19.7 million (Rs 79 crore). ...
Thu, Apr 09, 1998
April 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 7: Despite a written statement by the RBI that the Tata group's Indian Hotels Company Limited (which runs the Taj hotel cha...
Wed, Apr 08, 1998
March 28, 1998 00:00 IST
While the government is proclaiming ththe oil sector reforms, its actions over the past few weeks appear to be designed to scuttle these ver...
Sat, Mar 28, 1998
March 24, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 23: The board of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) which meets tomorrow (Tuesday) is likely to adopt a tough stance to p...
Tue, Mar 24, 1998
March 24, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 23: Despite Petroleum Minister V Ramamurthy's brave assurances today on how the dismantling of the administered price mecha...
Tue, Mar 24, 1998
March 20, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, March 19: The worst fears of investors across the country, and the globe, appear to have been confirmed by today's dismal start t...
Fri, Mar 20, 1998
March 12, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, March 11: Come the first of next month, and ONGC was to get paid 75 per cent of the global crude price for its production, instea...
Thu, Mar 12, 1998
February 21, 1998 00:00 IST
While Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral deserves to be congratulated for his efforts last month to stop his cabinet colleague M. Arunachalam...
Sat, Feb 21, 1998
February 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 14: The Gujarat government has dealt a big blow to the fortunes of the proposed Rs 7,500 crore Bina refinery -- a joint ventu...
Sun, Feb 15, 1998
February 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 14: Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral has got the Union Cabinet to back him in taking his colleague M Arunachalam to task, an...
Sun, Feb 15, 1998
February 14, 1998 00:00 IST
While Reserve Bank Governor Bimal Jalan has been very successful in managing to attain his short-run objective of preventing the rupee from ...
Sat, Feb 14, 1998
February 07, 1998 00:00 IST
Feb 6: There's this little trick to judging advertisement copy: don't read it, just hear it! If it sounds good, it's good -- never mind if i...
Sat, Feb 07, 1998
February 07, 1998 00:00 IST
While the United Front (UF) government has come in for a lot of flak for its recent decision to clip the Disinvestment Commission's wings, w...
Sat, Feb 07, 1998
January 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 30: While Maruti Udyog Limited chairman R S S L N Bhaskarudu has listed 27 items for discussion at tomorrow's board meeting, ...
Sat, Jan 31, 1998
January 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 29: With ONGC unable to make much headway in tackling the massive damage done to the oilfields at Bombay High and Neelam, it ...
Fri, Jan 30, 1998
January 28, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, January 27: With international crude prices now beginning to rise in the wake of the US threat to Iraq, some of the euphoria in t...
Wed, Jan 28, 1998
January 24, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, January 23: While the impending competition in the small-car segment has galvanised Maruti Udyog Limited officials -- both from t...
Sat, Jan 24, 1998
January 22, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, January 21: The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas has over-turned the recommendations of the Public Enterprise Selection Bo...
Thu, Jan 22, 1998
January 18, 1998 00:00 IST
You can expect, and even excuse, the country's ignorant politicians for making statements attacking the global credit rating agency Moody's ...
Sun, Jan 18, 1998




