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.

January 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, January 13: The Rs 1,200 crore Indo Rama Synthetics proposes to convert its Rs 200-odd crore rupee loans to foreign exchange loan...
Wed, Jan 14, 1998
January 13, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 12: The Election Commission (EC) has come down heavily on public sector oil companies for their hurried attempt to beat the e...
Tue, Jan 13, 1998
January 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 8: While India stands to save anywhere between $300 and $350 million in the next three months if global crude prices continue...
Fri, Jan 09, 1998
January 04, 1998 00:00 IST
When it comes to fond parenting, you've got to hand it to the Ministry of Petroleum. Instead of censuring its favourite child, the ONGC, for...
Sun, Jan 04, 1998
January 03, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 2: With production continuing to plateau in most of its existing fields, ONGC is now trying its luck in the country's deep wa...
Sat, Jan 03, 1998
January 01, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 31: If a recent estimate of the broking firm HSBC Batlivala & Karani is anything to go by, the new year isn't going to be...
Thu, Jan 01, 1998
December 28, 1997 00:00 IST
Even though the chiefs of most public sector oil companies such as Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) d...
Sun, Dec 28, 1997
December 21, 1997 00:00 IST
One of the things that the new secretary of the department of heavy industries, P. Shankar, will have to guard against is the attempt to hi...
Sun, Dec 21, 1997
December 14, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, December 13: While several policy makers, especially those in the Commerce Ministry believe that the recent devaluation of the r...
Sun, Dec 14, 1997
December 12, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: The country's oil production target for the year has taken another knock with ONGC's plans hit by a collapse in a produc...
Fri, Dec 12, 1997
December 10, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 9: While India and her political class can continue to be full of themselves, the two-day World Economic Forum (WEF) meet wh...
Wed, Dec 10, 1997
November 27, 1997 00:00 IST
LAHORE, NOV 26: Amidst great fanfare, cheering crowds along the way, and a grand display of fireworks at Lahore, Pakistan Prime Minister Na...
Thu, Nov 27, 1997
November 06, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, November 5: What is even more shocking than the sharp fall in oil production in the Neelam oilfields is the cavalier manner in w...
Thu, Nov 06, 1997
August 17, 1997 00:00 IST
Now that we've got our 50th birthday celebrations out of the way, the question is, how we want to run our lives for, say, the next fifty. A...
Sun, Aug 17, 1997
August 02, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 1: The awarding of the Ratna and R-series to the Essar-Premier Oil consortium appears to have got stuck following the contro...
Sat, Aug 02, 1997
July 27, 1997 00:00 IST
While it may be a bit premature to press the alarm bells, the fact of the matter is that the first quarter sales figures for a host of indu...
Sun, Jul 27, 1997
July 24, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 23: When a chief executive of a Rs 3,600 crore corporation is being chosen, you'd expect a certain amount of heart-burn and...
Thu, Jul 24, 1997
July 20, 1997 00:00 IST
At a dinner earlier in the week, a fairly successful television producer explained to me why banning Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcasting made...
Sun, Jul 20, 1997
July 14, 1997 00:00 IST
Perhaps the biggest indictment of India's liberalisation process in recent times comes from Suresh Rajpal, president of the $38 billion Hew...
Mon, Jul 14, 1997
July 08, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 7: Following the announcement in Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech, it was a foregone conclusion that the nine...
Tue, Jul 08, 1997
June 22, 1997 00:00 IST
The symbolism probably escaped finance minister P. Chidambaram and his colleagues in the Central Board of Direct Taxes. Nothing could signa...
Sun, Jun 22, 1997
June 19, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 18: No, people being prosecuted under FERA, or even those against whom inquiries have already been launched, cannot declare...
Thu, Jun 19, 1997
June 12, 1997 00:00 IST
Excerpts from an imaginary tete-a-tete with the CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on his suggestions on the oil pool deficit. Yechury's answers...
Thu, Jun 12, 1997
June 11, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 10: Come July 1, and the life of those with some disposable income will never be the same again. For this is the day on whi...
Wed, Jun 11, 1997
June 08, 1997 00:00 IST
For a long time, eminent agriculture economists such as Ashok Gulati of the NCAER have been screaming themselves hoarse over the short-chan...
Sun, Jun 08, 1997





